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Notes:
- screening of blood products for transfusion-transmissible infectious agents
- HIV1
- hepatitis B virus, hepatitis C virus
- Zika virus (all blood products) [2]
- Treponema pallidum (syphilis) [1]
- where relevant
- Trypanosoma cruzi (Chagas disease)
- Plasmodium species (malaria) [1]
Related
blood transfusion
indications for CMV seronegative blood products
irradiation of cellular blood products
Specific
transfusion component
whole blood
General
pharmaceutical agent
References
- World Health Organization (WHO). 2010
Screening Donated Blood for Transfusion-Transmissible Infections.
http://www.who.int/bloodsafety/ScreeningDonatedBloodforTransfusion.pdf
- FDA News Release. August 26, 2016
FDA advises testing for Zika virus in all donated blood
and blood components in the US.
http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm518218.htm