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cord-351278-nm2bq717	Thompson, Craig	Neutralising antibodies to SARS coronavirus 2 in Scottish blood donors - a pilot study of the value of serology to determine population exposure	2020-04-17		.txt	text/plain	2995	204	55	title: Neutralising antibodies to SARS coronavirus 2 in Scottish blood donors a pilot study of the value of serology to determine population exposure We performed a serological study of recent blood donors in Scotland to detect antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 as a marker of past infection. Serial follow up studies are needed to track infection and seroconversion in this and other similar populations However, these data indicate that sero-surveys of blood banks can serve as a useful tool for tracking the emergence and progression of an epidemic like the current SARS-CoV-2 outbreak. Since the first reports in December, 2019, infections with SARS-CoV-2 have been reported from an increasing number of countries worldwide, with particularly high incidence of diagnosed infections and associated deaths from respiratory disease initially in China but more recently in Italy, Iran, Spain, France and the USA (https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019).	./cache/cord-351278-nm2bq717.txt	./txt/cord-351278-nm2bq717.txt