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SUBMITTER: Focosi D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7430293 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Focosi Daniele D Anderson Arthur O AO Tang Julian W JW Tuccori Marco M
Clinical microbiology reviews 20200812 4
Convalescent plasma (CP) therapy has been used since the early 1900s to treat emerging infectious diseases; its efficacy was later associated with the evidence that polyclonal neutralizing antibodies can reduce the duration of viremia. Recent large outbreaks of viral diseases for which effective antivirals or vaccines are still lacking has renewed the interest in CP as a life-saving treatment. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has led to the scaling up of CP therapy to unprecedented levels. Compared ...[more]