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Non-compliance with blood donation eligibility criteria - Complidon 2017, France
The screening of blood donors, which consists of a questionnaire and a pre-donation interview, helps exclude donors who may pose a risk of transfusion-transmissible infections....
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Future expansion of blood donation eligibility to men who have sex with men in France: What impact will this have on the risk of HIV transmission through blood transfusion?
Prior to July 10, 2016, men who have sex with men (MSM) were permanently excluded from donating blood. Since that date, they have been eligible to donate blood if they have not engaged...
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In July 2016, blood donation was opened up to men who have sex with men: no impact on transfusion-related risk for HIV, HBV, and HCV
Since July 10, 2016, men who have sex with men (MSM) have been permitted to donate whole blood if they have not had sex with another man in the past 12 months. This article presents a...
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Transfusion of labile blood products infected with HIV despite negative screening results
Background - In France, the risk of HIV transmission through blood transfusion has been substantially reduced by the introduction of pooled viral genomic screening (MP-DGV) in 2001,...
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Support from the French Blood Establishment for the revision of blood donor selection criteria - Focus
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Changes in the residual risk of viral infection transmission through blood transfusion between 1992 and 2001 in France and the impact of DGV
This study analyzes trends in the residual risk of transmission of HIV, HBV, and HCV through blood transfusion over eight three-year periods from 1992 to 2001 and compares, for HIV and...
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Impact of Excluding Donors Who Have Stayed in the British Isles on the Residual Risk of HIV Transmission Through Transfusion of Labile Blood Products
Objective. Among the measures likely to reduce the risk of transmission of the agent causing the new variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, excluding blood donations from donors who had...
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Quantitative estimation of the risk of blood donation contamination by infectious agents
The presence of asymptomatic shedding of certain infectious agents poses a risk of transmission during blood transfusion. While this risk is currently well controlled for certain...
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HIV Seropositivity Among Blood Donors from 1990 to 1992: Prevalence and Estimation of the Residual Risk of Transfusion-Related Infections
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