A spectrum of blood-borne infectious agents is transmitted through transfusion of infected
blood donated by apparently healthy and asymptomatic blood donors. The diversity of …

Since the 1970s, introduction of serological assays targeting virus-specific antibodies and
antigens has been effective in identifying blood donations infected with the classic …

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

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 article discusses the success that has been achieved by application of novel
approaches and findings from other fields to study transfusion complications. Insights from …

Concerns about transfusion-transmitted infectious diseases (TTIDs) have been raised since
the beginning of routine blood administration for therapeutic purposes in the late 1930s …

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 …

The article discusses the developments and systematic assessments to respond emerging
transfusion-transmitted infectious diseases (TTIDs) over the past 50 years. The American …

Over the past decades, the incidence of clinically significant transfusion‐transmitted
diseases has been dramatically reduced. These reductions have occurred because of a …

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 …