FDA Recommends Screening Blood Donors Nationwide for Babesia Babesia microti, a tick-borne parasite similar to malaria, is responsible for the highest percentage of transfusion-related infectious fatalities in the… May 22, 2015
The FDA Approves Cerus’s Intercept System for Platelets and Plasma The FDA recently approved the Cerus Corporation’s Intercept Blood System for platelets and plasma which has been used in Europe… January 7, 2015
VIDEO: Transfusion Medicine and Ebola Virus Disease Hello and welcome to Transfusion News. Today we will be discussing Ebola virus disease, which was a special hot topic… November 30, 2014
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) Seronegative and Leukoreduced Blood Transfusion Prevents Transmission of CMV in Very Low-Birth-Weight Infants Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infections can cause serious complications and even death in very low-birth-weight (VLBW) infants. In a prospective multicenter study… October 24, 2014
AABB and the CDC Outline Guidelines for Laboratory Testing of Patients with Suspected Ebola While the Ebola outbreak continues to plague West Africa, there is concern from hospitals in developed nations about handling potentially… September 12, 2014
VIDEO: Transfusion-Transmitted Hepatitis E Today we will be discussing transfusion-transmitted hepatitis E infection. Hepatitis E virus, or HEV, is a single-stranded RNA virus which… August 30, 2014
Low Threat of an Ebola Outbreak in High-Resource Countries Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in the United States, wrote a perspective for… August 22, 2014
Reduced Transfusion-Transmitted Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C Infections in Sub-Saharan Africa Preventing transfusion-transmitted infections such as hepatitis B (HBV) and hepatitis C (HCV) is important to ensure a safe blood supply…. August 8, 2014
VIDEO: Chikungunya Virus Today we will be discussing chikungunya virus, a positive single stranded RNA virus that is normally transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes,… April 30, 2014
Needle-Free Malaria Detection Researchers from Rice University reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences a non-invasive laser-based method to rapidly… January 10, 2014
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