Preventing transfusion-transmitted babesiosis: Preliminary experience of the first laboratory-based blood donor screening program

Transfusion

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1523-1529

  Young, Carolyn ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Chawla, Anjulika ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Berardi, Victor ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Padbury, James ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Skowron, Gail ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Krause, Peter J ^a,b,c,d,e,f  

^a Rhode Island Blood Center   (United States)

^b HASBRO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Research and Reference Divisions   (United States)

^d WOMEN AND INFANTS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BABESIA MICROTI; BABESIOSIS; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION REACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG APPROVAL; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; THALASSEMIA; TRANSFUSION TRANSMITTED BABESIOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BABESIA MICROTI; BABESIOSIS; BLOOD DONORS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; DONOR SELECTION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84863809402     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2012.03612.x     Document Type: Article

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