Transfusion-Transmitted Malaria is Infrequent, Even in Malaria-Endemic Areas A study among transfused patients in Ghana suggests that while malaria parasites are routinely detected in blood donations in malaria-endemic… May 24, 2013
Ehrlichia Ewingii May be Transmitted Through Transfusion Researchers in Georgia have reported the first probable case of transfusion-transmitted Ehrlichia ewingii, a tick-borne pathogen that typically resides in… April 5, 2013
VIDEO: Prion Filtration To Reduce Transfusion-Transmitted Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease CJD is a rare but fatal non-inflammatory neurodegenerative condition. Its origin in humans stems from the ingestion of beef from… November 14, 2012
Multicenter Study Finds No Correlation between Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and XMRV A multicenter blinded case-control study has confirmed that chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is not associated with xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related… October 5, 2012
VIDEO: Human Herpesvirus 8 Seropositive Blood Transfusion Is Associated with Increased Mortality A recent study from Uganda demonstrated that transfusion with human herpesvirus 8 antibody-positive blood is associated with an increased risk… September 28, 2012
West Nile Virus Outbreak in the United States According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the recent outbreak of West Nile virus in the United… September 7, 2012
AABB Conference on Secondary Bacterial Screening of Platelets In a one-day public conference held in July 2012, members from AABB and others in the transfusion medicine community discussed… August 24, 2012
VIDEO: The Threat of Transfusion-Transmitted Dengue Dengue, a Flavivirus circulating in more than 100 countries, has recently been identified as a potentially serious threat to the… August 14, 2012
VIDEO: Transfusion Transmitted Babesiosis Today we’ll be discussing transfusion-transmitted babesiosis. Transfusion-transmitted babesiosis is increasingly recognized as a challenge to blood transfusion safety. Although babesiosis… July 20, 2012
Transfusion Transmitted Infections