The utility of pathogen inactivation technology: A real-life example of Leishmania infantum inactivation in platelets from a donor with an asymptomatic infection

Blood Transfusion

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 536-541

  Jimenez Marco, Teresa ^a   Riera, Cristina ^b   Fisa, Roser ^b   Girona Llobera, Enrique ^a   Sedeño, Matilde ^a   Goodrich, Raymond P ^c   Pujol, Alba ^b   Guillen, Carmen ^b   Muncunill, Josep ^a  

^a Blood and Tissue Bank   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c CaridianBCT Biotechnologies   (United States)

Author keywords

Donors; Leishmania infantum; Pathogen inactivation; Transfusion transmitted disease

Indexed keywords

KINETOPLAST DNA; RIBOFLAVIN; THROMBOCYTE CONCENTRATE;

ADULT; APHERESIS; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTION; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD FILTRATION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; CELL FRACTIONATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IN VITRO STUDY; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THROMBOCYTE VOLUME; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BLOOD DONORS; BLOOD PLATELETS; DISINFECTION; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84870018095     PISSN: 17232007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2450/2012.0178-11     Document Type: Article

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