"Infectious Disease Transmission Through Cell, Tissue, and Organ Transplantation: Reducing the Risk Through Donor Selection."

According to the author's abstract of an article published in Cell Transplantation, "The incidence of cell transplant-transmitted infection is unknown and can only be inferred from prospective studies - that have not yet been performed and reported. The possibility of donor-to-recipient disease transmission through cell transplant therapy can be considered by reviewing the risk associated with other transplanted tissues and organs. Viral, bacterial, and fungal infections have been transmitted via transplantation of organs, tissue allografts such as bone, skin, cornea, and heart valves, and cells such as islets, hematopoietic stem cells, and semen. Several types of protozoan and worm...

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