• Clin. Lab. Med. · Jun 2002

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    Advances in pretransfusion infectious disease testing: ensuring the safety of transfusion therapy.

    • Katharine A Downes and Roslyn Yomtovian.
    • American Red Cross Citywide Program, Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, Blood Bank, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH, USA.
    • Clin. Lab. Med. 2002 Jun 1;22(2):475-90.

    AbstractThe public expects a zero-tolerance policy for the transmission of infectious agents by blood transfusion. Although unrealistic, the efforts to reach this goal have produced an extremely safe albeit costly blood supply [82]. Blood collecting agencies, the FDA, physicians, and scientists have over the past 20 years created a complex system of layers of protection to interdict transfusion-transmitted infections (Fig. 2). As new, exotic, potentially blood transmittable infectious agents evolve [83], new barriers will be erected to [figure: see text] interdict these agents. In the interim, the US blood supply is the safest in the world.

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