Blood Safety
"Viral Safety of Platelet Concentrates."
Published in Cancer Weekly, May 4th, 1998
According to an abstract submitted by the authors to the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh Consensus Conference on Platelet Transfusion, held November 27-28, 1997, in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, "Immunosuppression, and vulnerability to disease associated with viral infections, is relatively common in platelet recipients. Increasingly, platelet concentrates are made exclusively from donations from repeat donors who have previously undergone serological tests and for markers of some transmissible infections: the frequency of transmissible HBV, HCV and HIV infection in these donations is low. Testing these donations for HBsAg, anti HCV and anti HIV with highly sensitive tests...
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