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SUBMITTER: Guerrero-Garcia JJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8308904 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Guerrero-García José de Jesús JJ Zúñiga-Magaña Alejandra Guadalupe AG Barrera-De León Juan Carlos JC Magaña-Duarte Rafael R Ortuño-Sahagún Daniel D
Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) 20210711 7
Obtaining blood which is safe for transfusions is one of the principal challenges in the health systems of developing countries. Supply of contaminated blood increases morbidity, mortality, and the costs of patient care. In Mexico, serological screening is mandatory, but only a few of the main blood banks routinely perform a nucleic acid test (NAT). Data from 80,391 blood donations processed between August 2018 and December 2019 at the Central Blood Bank of the Western National Medical Center of ...[more]