NR ADOR
AU Dormont,D.
TI [Evaluation of transmission of unconventional agents by human albumin]
OT Evaluation du risque de transmission des agents transmissibles non conventionnels par l'albumine plasmatique humaine
QU Annales Francaises d'Anesthesie et de Reanimation 1996; 15(4): 560-8
PT journal article
AB Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy agents (TSA) or prions induce neurodegenerative diseases in humans and animals. Their nature is still unknown, even if the main component of infectivity is identified as an abnormal isoform of a host-encoded protein, the prion protein (PrP). Today, no diagnostic test is available routinely for the detection of infected patients. TSA are resistant to most of the physical and chemical procedures that are efficient against other micro-organisms. Iatrogenic transmissions of TSA have been reported in the past: they always involved either brain derivatives or instruments that have been in contact with infected central nervous system. In an infected individual, infectivity is mostly detectable in brain. However, a persistent low-level viremia can be demonstrated in association with the white blood cells; infectivity is never found in plasma, serum or in red blood cells. Epidemiological data do not evidence any relationship between spongiform encephalopathies and blood transfusion. Therefore, in 1995, TSA transmission trough albumin is only a theoretical risk.
MH Albumins/*adverse effects; *Disease Transmission, Horizontal; English Abstract; Human; Prion Diseases/*transmission; Risk Assessment
AD Departement de recherche medicale, Commissariat a l'energie atomique, centre de recherches du service de Sante des Armees, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France.
SP französisch
PO Frankreich