Conference Coverage (Blood Safety & Screening)

California Center Routinely Screens for Chagas-Causing Parasite

Published in Blood Weekly, November 13th, 1995

A south California blood center consistently tests donors at risk of exposure to Trypanosoma cruzi (T. cruzi) for evidence of seroreactivity.

T. cruzi is the protozoan hemoflagellate that is responsible for Chagas disease, noted Ira A. Schulman, M.D., Director of Transfusion Medicine, Los Angeles County and University of Southern California (LAC/USC) Medical Center. Economic problems and political turmoil in Latin America have resulted in emigration to the United States of large numbers of people from Mexico, Central America and South America, he told participants at the Blood Safety & Screening conference, held October 23-25, 1995, in Washington,...

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