Lookback investigations of Babesia microti-seropositive blood donors: Seven-year experience in a Babesia-endemic area

Transfusion

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1509-1516

  Johnson, Stephanie T ^a,b,c   Cable, Ritchard G ^a,b,c   Leiby, David A ^a,b,c  

^a AMERICAN RED CROSS   (United States)

^b New England Division   (United States)

^c HOLLAND LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BABESIA; BABESIA MICROTI; BABESIOSIS; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD SAFETY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION REACTION; CELL COMPONENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARKET WITHDRAWAL; PARASITEMIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROLOGY; SPECIES ENDEMICITY; TRANSFUSION TRANSMITTED BABESIA; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL;

ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BABESIA MICROTI; BABESIOSIS; BLOOD DONORS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLOOD-BORNE PATHOGENS; CONNECTICUT; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84863793012     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2011.03345.x     Document Type: Article

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