Blood Transfusion and Spread of Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) may be transmissible by blood. To prevent secondary transmission through blood components, several countries have started to exclude as donors persons who have received a blood transfusion. We investigated the effectiveness of this measure by using a dynamic...

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Autores principales: Dietz, Klaus, Raddatz, Günter, Wallis, Jonathan, Müller, Norbert, Zerr, Inga, Duerr, Hans-Peter, Lefèvre, Hans, Seifried, Erhard, Löwer, Johannes
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2007
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2725807/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17370520
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1301.060396

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2725807/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17370520
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1301.060396

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