It is presently disputed whether studies indicating a higher risk of infectious diseases among
paid blood donors are lessons of the past, or still hold relevance. Comparative studies …

The safety and ethical aspects of blood donation are examined in the light of current
legislation and practice. The advantages and disadvantages of voluntary and paid donation …

Paid blood donation still has its defenders, who cite economic doctrines denying the
existence of altruism per se, the inability of most countries with exclusively voluntary …

The human T-cell leukemia virus HTLV-I is a transfusion-transmissible retrovirus targeting T
lymphocytes for which screening is not currently undertaken in United Kingdom blood …

Discusses the benefits of patients from leucocyte depletion of the blood supply in the United
Kingdom. Information on leucocyte-derived cytokines; Leucocyte depletion on relation to …

OBJECTIVES--To determine the prevalence of antibodies to the human T cell
leukaemia/lymphoma viruses (HTLV-I and HTLV-II) in blood donors in north London in order …

BACKGROUND: The demographics, deferrable risk behaviors, and the prevalence and
incidence of viral infections of apheresis (PH) and whole‐blood (WB) donors were …

Although human T-lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) exhibits high genetic stability, as
compared to other RNA viruses and particularly to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) …

We studied magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the head and cervical spine and CT of the
head in 46 patients (14 men, 32 women) with chronic progressive mycloneuropathy. The …

Human T-cell leukemia virus types 1 and 2 (HTLV-1 and HTLV-2) are closely related
retroviruses with nucleotide sequences that are 65% identical. To determine whether their …