title: Safety and quality criteria for autologous blood donations. Committee for Virus Safety of the Society for Virology.
abstract: The authors discuss the quality control criteria for autologous blood donations. They recommend that all autologous donations be tested for serological markers of blood-transmissible diseases. Marker-positive donors should not donate autologous blood. If autologous donation seems indispensable, infectious donations should be clearly marked as infectious.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Medical Virology, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Caspari
authors.forename: W H
authors.initials: WH
authors.lastname: Gerlich
mesh_terms: D001793:Blood Preservation / Q000592:standards*; D001804:Blood Transfusion, Autologous / Q000592:standards*; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D011786:Quality Control