Results of lookback for Chagas disease since the inception of donor screening at New York Blood Center

Transfusion

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1083-1087

  Kessler, Debra A ^a   Shi, Patricia A ^a   Avecilla, Scott T ^a   Shaz, Beth H ^a  

^a NEW YORK BLOOD CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD BANK; BLOOD DONOR; CHAGAS DISEASE; DONOR SELECTION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INFECTION RISK; LEUKAPHERESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RADIOIMMUNOPRECIPITATION; RECIPIENT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCREENING TEST; THROMBOCYTOPHERESIS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; UNITED STATES;

AGED; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; BLOOD BANKS; BLOOD SAFETY; CHAGAS DISEASE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK CITY; PLATELET TRANSFUSION; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 84877693168     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2012.03856.x     Document Type: Article

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