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Hepatitis B Virus Blood Screening: Need for Reappraisal of Blood Safety Measures? [PDF]

Frontiers in Medicine, 2018
Over the past decades, the risk of HBV transfusion–transmission has been steadily reduced through the recruitment of volunteer donors, the selection of donors based on risk-behavior evaluation, the development of increasingly more sensitive hepatitis B ...
Daniel Candotti, Syria Laperche
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A case of McLeod syndrome caused by a nonsense variation c.942G>A in the XK gene: A case report

Frontiers in Genetics, 2023
McLeod syndrome is a rare XK gene-related progressive, debilitating disease involving multiple systems. The blood group phenotypes in McLeod syndrome patients usually display the Kx antigen loss and a decrease in the Kell blood group system antigen ...
Yanling Ying, Yanling Ying, Shifang Yu, Jingjing Zhang, Jingjing Zhang, Ji He, Ji He, Xianguo Xu, Xianguo Xu, Xiaozhen Hong, Xiaozhen Hong, Faming Zhu, Faming Zhu   +12 more
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The Significance of RHD Genotyping and Characteristic Analysis in Chinese RhD Variant Individuals

Frontiers in Immunology, 2021
BackgroundRhD is the most important and complex blood group system because of its highly polymorphic and immunogenic nature. RhD variants can induce immune response by allogeneic transfusion, organ transplantation, and fetal immunity.
Yanling Ying, Yanling Ying, Jingjing Zhang, Jingjing Zhang, Xiaozhen Hong, Xiaozhen Hong, Xianguo Xu, Xianguo Xu, Ji He, Ji He, Faming Zhu, Faming Zhu   +11 more
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Plasma metagenomics reveals regional variations of emerging and re-emerging pathogens in Chinese blood donors with an emphasis on human parvovirus B19

One Health, 2023
At present, many infectious pathogens, especially emerging/re-emerging pathogens, exist in the blood of voluntary blood donors and may be transmitted through blood transfusions.
Zhao Mengyi, Li Yuhui, Gao Zhan, Liu Anqing, Li Yujia, Li Shilin, Gao Lei, Lan Yue, Huang Mei, Wan Jianhua, He Weilan, Mao Wei, Cai Jie, Zhou Jingyu, Yin Yijing, Guo Yanli, Zhong Qiulei, Huang Yang, Chen Limin, Fan Zhenxin, He Miao   +20 more
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Simultaneous genotyping for human platelet antigen systems and HLA-A and HLA-B loci by targeted next-generation sequencing

Frontiers in Immunology, 2022
In order to treat the alloimmunization platelet transfusion refractoriness (PTR), human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-type and/or human platelet antigen (HPA)-type matched platelets between donors and patients are usually used.
Jielin Wang, Jielin Wang, Xuan You, Xuan You, Yanmin He, Yanmin He, Xiaozhen Hong, Xiaozhen Hong, Ji He, Ji He, Sudan Tao, Sudan Tao, Faming Zhu, Faming Zhu   +13 more
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High-Resolution Analysis Identifies High Frequency of KIR-A Haplotypes and Inhibitory Interactions of KIR With HLA Class I in Zhejiang Han

Frontiers in Immunology, 2021
Killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptors (KIR) interact with human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class I molecules, modulating critical NK cell functions in the maintenance of human health.
Sudan Tao, Yanmin He, Katherine M. Kichula, Jielin Wang, Ji He, Paul J. Norman, Faming Zhu   +6 more
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Impact of injection buffer volume to perform bronchoalveolar lavage fluid collection for isolating alveolar macrophages to investigate fine particle-induced IL-1α secretion

Journal of Immunotoxicology, 2021
The importance of alveolar macrophages has been reported in many toxicology/immunology studies. Alveolar macrophages release interleukin (IL)-1α as a damage-associated molecular pattern (DAMP) when stimulated by fine particles.
Eita Sasaki, Haruka Momose, Keiko Furuhata, Takuo Mizukami, Isao Hamaguchi   +4 more
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Globalization and blood safety [PDF]

ISBT Science Series, 2006
Globalization may be viewed as the growing interdependence of countries worldwide through the increasing volume and variety of cross‐border transactions in goods and services, and also through the more rapid and widespread diffusion of technology.
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Application value of nucleic acid testing in syphilis screening reactive blood

Zhongguo shuxue zazhi, 2023
Objective To evaluate the application value of nucleic acid testing (NAT) by studying the NAT-yield of syphilis screening reactive blood from five blood centers.
Anqing LIU, Qiaoling ZHOU, Miao HE, Zhan GAO   +3 more
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Safety of the Blood Supply [PDF]

Cancer Control, 2015
The transfusion of blood components plays a significant role as supportive therapy in the treatment of patients with cancer. Although blood transfusions help manage complications arising from either the patient's primary condition or associated with therapeutic intervention, their use introduces a new set of risks; therefore, health care professionals ...
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