THE BLOOD SUPPLY IN THE UNITED States and other developed countries has never
been as safe as it is now. During the past several decades, there have been dramatic …

BACKGROUND: Emerging infections have been identified as a continuing threat to human
health. Many such infections are known to be transmissible by blood transfusion, while …

Although the risk of transfusion-transmitted infections today is lower than ever, the supply of
safe blood products remains subject to contamination with known and yet to be identified …

Records of the transmission of bacterial infections by transfusion date back to the beginning
of organized blood banking. Despite tremendous strides in preventing viral infection through …

Background In August 2009, a group from the AABB (Stramer et al., Transfusion 2009; 99:
1S–29S, Emerging Infectious Disease Agents and their Potential Threat to Transfusion …

Blood for transfusion is a potential source of infection by a variety of known and unknown
transmissible agents. Over the last 20 years, astounding reductions in the risk of viral …

An emerging agent can threaten the safety of the blood supply. Drs. Morris Blajchman and
Eleftherios Vamvakas write that the risk of transfusion-transmitted infection is not static, as …

BACKGROUND: Bacterial contamination of blood components can result in transfusion‐
transmitted infection, but the risk is not established. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS …

The introduction of blood donation screening for syphilis in the 1940s, followed by hepatitis
B surface antigen (HBsAg) testing in the early 1970s and the subsequent conversion in the …

The mandated testing of blood components for infectious diseases, to prevent transfusion-
transmitted infections (TTIs), began in the 1950s. Since then, changes in predonation …