title: Transfusion transmitted infection: viral and exotic diseases.
abstract: Viral and other exotic diseases may be transmitted by blood transfusion. These infections include human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis viruses (A, B, C, D and E), syphilis, malaria, retrovirus HTLV-1, and cytomegalovirus. Other more exotic diseases which may be transmitted by transfusion of blood or blood components include Chagas' disease (Trypanosomiasis cruzi), Lyme disease (Borrelia burgdorferi), and Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease. Screening procedures currently used in Australian blood banks minimise transfusion-transmitted infection. The risk of acquiring any infection in this manner may be less than 0.1%.
authors.affiliation: NSW Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service, Sydney, Australia.
authors.forename: B R
authors.initials: BR
authors.lastname: Wylie
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D011528:Protozoan Infections / Q000635:transmission*; D018805:Sepsis / Q000469:parasitology*; D065227:Transfusion Reaction; D014766:Viremia / Q000382:microbiology*; D014777:Virus Diseases / Q000635:transmission*