Blood Safety
Parvovirus B19 exposure through blood products does not result in symptomatic infection
Published in Blood Weekly, January 5th, 2006
According to a study from Germany, "Patients with hematologic malignancies often require blood products, and parvovirus B19 is known to be transmitted by this route. Primary infection with parvovirus B19 shows a wide variety of disease manifestation. In immunocompromised patients, symptoms are severe and viral clearance is delayed or missing.
"A total of 2123 blood products given to all patients of a hematologic ward over a period of 6 months were retrospectively examined for the presence of parvovirus B19 DNA by an in-house real-time polymerase chain reaction...
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Source: Blood Weekly (2006-01-05)
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