Visceral Leishmaniasis (Screening)

Transfusion Transmitted Disease Reported in India

Published in Blood Weekly, October 28th, 1996

In areas where visceral leishmaniasis is endemic, control of blood for transfusion may need to be performed.

Anti-Leishmania antibodies were detected in the sera of blood donors in Brazil, and two cases of transfusion-transmitted visceral leishmaniasis (kala-azar) have been reported recently in India.

V.O. da Silva, University Fed. Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and colleagues used a FML-ELISA assay to screen blood for the presence of anti-Leishmania antibodies, and presented their findings at the 49th annual meeting of the American Association of Blood Banks (AABB), Orlando, Florida, October 12-16, 1996.

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