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SUBMITTER: Di Minno G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7115716 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Di Minno Giovanni G Perno Carlo Federico CF Tiede Andreas A Navarro David D Canaro Mariana M Güertler Lutz L Ironside James W JW
Blood reviews 20150720 1
The pathogen safety of blood/plasma-derived products has historically been a subject of significant concern to the medical community. Measures such as donor selection and blood screening have contributed to increase the safety of these products, but pathogen transmission does still occur. Reasons for this include lack of sensitivity/specificity of current screening methods, lack of reliable screening tests for some pathogens (e.g. prions) and the fact that many potentially harmful infectious age ...[more]