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Recent Hepatitis C Virus Infections Among Blood Donors and Risk Factors
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Surveillance of markers for HIV, HTLV, and hepatitis B and C virus infection among blood donors in France from 1991 to 2000
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HIV Surveillance Among Allogeneic Blood Donors. The Fight Against HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in France: 10 Years of Surveillance, 1996–2005
- A decline in HIV prevalence among blood donors through 1998, followed by stabilization at around 0.5 per 10,000 new donors between 1998 and 2005. - Stability in HIV incidence among...
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Homosexuals and Blood Donation Exclusion: Impact on the Residual Risk of HIV Transmission Through Transfusion. Public Health Watch Conference, Paris, November 26–28, 2008
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Quantitative Estimation of the Risk of Blood Donation Contamination by Infectious Agents. Working Group of Afssaps, EFS, INTS, and InVS
The presence of asymptomatic shedding of certain infectious agents in the bloodstream poses a risk of transmission of these agents during blood transfusions. While this risk is currently...
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Screening for markers of transfusion-transmissible infections in blood donations collected in France from 1996 to 1998
From 1996 to 1998, a decline in the rates of donations testing positive for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis C virus (HCV), and hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) was...
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Epidemiological surveillance of homologous blood donors and residual risk in France between 2003 and 2005. Regular surveillance reports - Infectious diseases
Introduction - The national epidemiological surveillance of blood donors aims to monitor the prevalence and incidence of bloodborne infections (HIV, HTLV, HCV, and HBV), identify risk...
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Access to blood donation for men who have sex with men and the impact on the risk of HIV transmission through transfusion: an international review
As early as 1983, in many countries, men who have sex with men were permanently barred from donating blood because they were considered to be at high risk of HIV infection. Since the...
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Epidemiological surveillance of allogeneic blood donors in France between 2001 and 2003. National Surveillance of Infectious Diseases, 2001–2003
Key points: - Prevalence rates remained stable over the 2001–2003 period: 0.60 per 104 new donors for HIV, 8.0 per 104 for HCV, 1.8 per 104 for HBsAg, and 0.56 per 104 for HTLV. -...
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Evaluation of Pre- and Post-Transfusion Serological Screening in France in 2001
HIV and HCV screening for recipients of labile blood products was recommended in France in 1996 by a ministerial circular. Conducted prior to transfusion and within the following four...
