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Blood safety and availability in the WHO African region

, 2018
Introduction: Data has shown that some progress in supplying quality blood to African populations has been accomplished in most countries in the region between 2006 and 2010.
L. A, N. Jb, Kasilo Omj, Tagny C Tayou
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Standardization of Diagnostics in Blood Safety [PDF]

Transfusion Medicine and Hemotherapy, 2015
The implementation of nucleic acid amplification techniques (NAT) over the last two decades has totally revolutionized the field of transfusion medicine and blood safety. Several blood services started to screen for viral pathogens (HIV-1, HCV, HBV) with NAT on a voluntary basis in Germany in 1997.
Jens, Dreier, Holger, Hennig
openaire   +2 more sources

Hepatitis E virus in the countries of the Middle East and North Africa region: an awareness of an infectious threat to blood safety

Infection, 2016
PurposeHepatitis E virus (HEV) is mainly transmitted through contaminated water supplies which make the virus endemic in developing countries including countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.
S. Yazbek, K. Kreidieh, S. Ramia
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Blood donor selection and deferral pattern as an important tool for blood safety in a tertiary care hospital

Asian Journal of Transfusion Science, 2016
Context: Blood donor selection criteria based on science and regulatory rules influence donor as well recipient safety and demographics. Aim: To evaluate and analyze the blood donor deferral pattern and its causes among blood donors in a tertiary care ...
M. Shrivastava, Nehal Shah, Seema Navaid, K. Agarwal, Gourav Sharma   +4 more
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Climate change projections of West Nile virus infections in Europe: implications for blood safety practices

Environmental Health, 2016
BackgroundWest Nile virus (WNV) is transmitted by mosquitoes in both urban as well as in rural environments and can be pathogenic in birds, horses and humans. Extrinsic factors such as temperature and land use are determinants of WNV outbreaks in Europe,
J. Semenza, A. Tran, Laura Espinosa, B. Súdre, D. Domanović, S. Paz   +5 more
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Addition of Sodium Pyruvate to Stored Red Blood Cells Attenuates Liver Injury in a Murine Transfusion Model

Mediators of Inflammation, 2016
RBCs undergo numerous changes during storage and stored RBCs may induce adverse effects, ultimately resulting in organ injury in transfusion recipients.
Sha Xia, Gan Chen, Bo Wang, Yujing Yin, Zhenwei Sun, Jingxiang Zhao, Penglong Li, Lian Zhao, Hong Zhou   +8 more
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A systematic genotype and subgenotype re-ranking of hepatitis B virus under a novel classification standard

Heliyon, 2019
Background and aim: It is commonly noticed that chaotic and inefficient subgenotyping are universally used academically and clinically, a standardized HBV genotype/subgenotype classification criterion is urgently acquired.
Yonghua Yin, Kai He, Bingting Wu, Min Xu, Lianming Du, Wei Liu, Pu Liao, Yu Liu, Miao He   +8 more
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Whole blood pathogen reduction technology and blood safety in sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review with regional discussion

African Journal of Laboratory Medicine, 2016
Background Despite vast improvements in transfusion services in sub-Saharan Africa over the last decade, there remain serious concerns on the safety and adequacy of the blood supply across the region.
A. Nkohkwo, G. Agbor, E. Asongalem, C. Tagny, T. Asonganyi   +4 more
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The Impact of Emerging Infectious Diseases on Chinese Blood Safety

Transfusion Medicine Reviews, 2016
Emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) have always been one of the major threats to public health. Although the implementation of mandatory testing for 4 classical transfusion-transmitted infectious—human immunodeficiency virus, hepatitis B virus, hepatitis
M. He, Jing‐xing Wang, Limin Chen, Jing Liu, P. Zeng   +4 more
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Establishing a screening strategy for non-discriminatory reactive blood donors by constructing a predictive model of hepatitis B virus infection status from a single blood center in China

Frontiers in Public Health
BackgroundWhen employing the transcription-mediated amplification method for screening blood donors, there are some non-discriminatory reactive results which are screening assay reactive but HBV-DNA discriminatory assay negative.
Danxiao Wu, Danxiao Wu, Yiqin Hu, Min Wang, Yaling Wu, Yaling Wu, Jie Dong, Jie Dong, Jinhui Liu, Jinhui Liu, Wei Hu, Wei Hu   +11 more
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