title: [Transmissible diseases through the intermediary of transfusions].
abstract: Blood transfusions may lead to immunologic but also infectious problems. If bacterial pathogens are rarely involved, blood pathogens - especially malaria - and viruses are dominant. Non-a non-b hepatitis is the most frequently encountered viral infection, with a risk of 1% for each blood unit. Screening of SGPT and anti Hbc antibodies should diminish the transmission risk by 30-40%. Since August 1985, HIV antibody screening of blood donors has dramatically reduced the risk of blood transmission; however, patients Ag HIV+/Ac HIV (first weeks of infection, ...) imply that severe voluntary exclusion procedures are maintained for the donors; similar measures are also valid for malaria prevention.
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authors.lastname: Van Laethem
mesh_terms: D015492:AIDS Serodiagnosis; D006526:Hepatitis C / Q000635:transmission; D006801:Humans; D007154:Immune System Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D008288:Malaria / Q000635:transmission; D010272:Parasitic Diseases / Q000635:transmission*; D065227:Transfusion Reaction; D014777:Virus Diseases / Q000635:transmission*
vernacular_title: Maladies transmissibles par l'intermédiaire des transfusions.