Emerging, re-emerging and submerging infectious threats to the blood supply

Vox Sanguinis, Supplement

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2004, Pages

  Alter, Harvey J ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; BABESIA; BACTERIAL DECONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BLOOD BANK; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHAGAS DISEASE; CIRCOVIRIDAE; CONFERENCE PAPER; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DENGUE VIRUS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DNA MICROARRAY; DRUG SAFETY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EHRLICHIA; FLAVIVIRUS; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; GENOME; HEALTH CARE COST; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HEPATITIS; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HEPATITIS G VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; IMMIGRANT; INFECTION; MALARIA; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEIC ACID TEST; PARVOVIRUS; POSTTRANSFUSION HEPATITIS; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SAFETY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEN VIRUS; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; SKIN DECONTAMINATION; THROMBOCYTE; TORQUE TENO VIRUS; TRAVEL; VIRAL DECONTAMINATION; VIREMIA; VIRUS INACTIVATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLOOD-BORNE PATHOGENS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; GB VIRUS C; HUMANS; PRION DISEASES; TORQUE TENO VIRUS; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 4444294909     PISSN: 17416892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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