Transfusion transmitted leishmaniasis. What to do with blood donors from endemic areas?

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 617-627

  Mansueto, Pasquale ^a   Seidita, Aurelio ^a   Vitale, Giustina ^a   Cascio, Antonio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Blood donors; Leishmania; Leishmaniasis; Transfusion

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTION; BLOOD; BLOOD BANK; BLOOD COMPONENT; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; HUMAN; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; TRANSFUSION MEDICINE; TRANSFUSION TRANSMITTED LEISHMANIASIS; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS; ANIMAL; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; BLOOD; BLOOD DONORS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; TRANSFUSION MEDICINE;

EID: 84916640142     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: 18730442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2014.10.011     Document Type: Review

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