NR AMTN
AU Wylie,B.R.
TI Transfusion transmitted infection: viral and exotic diseases.
QU Anaesthesia and Intensive Care 1993 Feb; 21(1): 24-30
PT journal article; review; review, tutorial
AB Viral and other exotic diseases may be transmitted by blood transfusion. These infections include human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis viruses (A, B, C, D and E), syphilis, malaria, retrovirus HTLV-1, and cytomegalovirus. Other more exotic diseases which may be transmitted by transfusion of blood or blood components include Chagas' disease (Trypanosomiasis cruzi), Lyme disease (Borrelia burgdorferi), and Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease. Screening procedures currently used in Australian blood banks minimise transfusion-transmitted infection. The risk of acquiring any infection in this manner may be less than 0.1%.
ZR 69
MH Blood Transfusion/*adverse effects; Human; Protozoan Infections/*transmission; Septicemia/*parasitology; Viremia/*microbiology; Virus Diseases/*transmission
AD NSW Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service, Sydney, Australia.
SP englisch
PO Australien