Transfusion-transmitted Babesia microti identified through hemovigilance

Transfusion

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2557-2563

  Tonnetti, Laura ^a   Eder, Anne F ^a   Dy, Beth ^a   Kennedy, Jean ^a   Pisciotto, Patricia ^a   Benjamin, Richard J ^a   Leiby, David A ^a  

^a AMERICAN RED CROSS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPLENIA; BABESIA MICROTI; BABESIOSIS; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA EXTRACTION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FATALITY; FOLLOW UP; HEMOVIGILANCE; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MONITORING; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECIPIENT; RISK REDUCTION; SEROLOGY; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; TRAVEL; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BABESIA MICROTI; BABESIOSIS; BLOOD BANKS; BLOOD DONORS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ENDEMIC DISEASES; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 71849102364     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2009.02317.x     Document Type: Article

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