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 …

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

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 …

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 …

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 …

In general, the risk of transfusion-transmitted infections has been greatly reduced today.
However, blood-borne bacterial and parasitic infections and emerging infections transmitted …

Transfusion-transmitted infections (TTI) have been greatly reduced in numbers due to the
strict donor selection and screening procedures, ie the availability of technologies to test …

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 …

Transfusion-transmitted infections (TTIs) can be severe and result in death. Transfusion-
transmitted viral pathogen transmission has been substantially reduced, whereas sepsis …