Background Characterisation of human-associated viral communities is essential for
epidemiological surveillance and to be able to anticipate new potential threats for blood …

The characterization of the human blood-associated viral community (also called blood
virome) is essential for epidemiological surveillance and to anticipate new potential threats …

Viral metagenomics has revolutionized our understanding for identification of unknown or
poorly characterized viruses. For that reason, metagenomic studies gave been largely …

Emerging evidence indicates that gut virome plays a role in human health and disease,
however, much less is known about the viral communities in blood. Here we conducted a …

Metagenomics is greatly improving our ability to discover new viruses, as well as their
possible associations with disease. However, metagenomics has also changed our …

Blood transfusion safety is an essential element of public health. Current blood screening
strategies rely on targeted techniques that could miss unknown or unexpected pathogens …

Transfusion-transmitted infections remain a permanent threat in medicine. It keeps the
burden of the past, marked by serious infections transmitted by transfusion, and is constantly …

This study was undertaken in order to determine whether screening of viremic blood
donations by testing of pooled donor samples could constitute a technically feasible …

The characterization of the blood virome is important for the safety of blood-derived
transfusion products, and for the identification of emerging pathogens. We explored non …

BACKGROUND Although the risk of transmitting infectious agents by blood transfusion is
dramatically reduced after donor selection, leukoreduction, and laboratory testing, some …