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Residual infectious disease risk in screened blood transfusion from a high-prevalence population: Santa Catarina, Brazil

Date

Authors

Maresch, Christina

Schluter, Philip J

Wilson, Andrew D

Sleigh, Adrian

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Infectious disease testing has improved but viral infection transmission through transfusion continues to occur. Residual risk, however, is now so low in some countries that it can only be estimated by mathematical modeling. With hierarchical

Keywords

Keywords: article; blood donor; blood sampling; blood transfusion; Brazil; confidence interval; Hepatitis B virus; Hepatitis C virus; human; Human immunodeficiency virus; Human T cell leukemia virus; incidence; infection; infection risk; prevalence; vascularization

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/23155

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Transfusion

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1111/j.1537-2995.2007.01521.x

Restricted until

2037-12-31

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