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The Need for Continuing Vigilance: Addressing the Threat for Transmission of Blood-Borne Infectious Disease

As international travel and human encroachment into previously isolated areas have increased, so too has the potential for the emergence of new infectious diseases. Populations likely to be susceptible to new infectious diseases have also increased in size. The past three decades have seen outbreaks...

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Autor principal: Stanley, Samuel L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7111887/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16631823
http://dx.doi.org/10.1053/j.seminhematol.2006.02.004
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description As international travel and human encroachment into previously isolated areas have increased, so too has the potential for the emergence of new infectious diseases. Populations likely to be susceptible to new infectious diseases have also increased in size. The past three decades have seen outbreaks of diseases caused by parvoviruses, Nipah virus, circoviruses, and prions. Infectious pathogens such as these are formidable opponents; they can adapt to new hosts or cause variant diseases within new hosts. Many are also resistant to current inactivation techniques. In order to prevent or contain outbreaks, pathogens that emerge must be identified quickly and efficiently; research and ongoing global surveillance are therefore of primary importance. To effectively protect the blood supply and blood-based therapies, this research should include investigations into improved techniques for detection, screening, and viral inactivation, as well as into ways to reduce patient exposure to infectious pathogens via therapeutic agents. The proactive devotion of appropriate resources to infectious disease containment and prevention prior to an epidemic should be perceived as both essential public health policy and cost effective.
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spelling pubmed-71118872020-04-02 The Need for Continuing Vigilance: Addressing the Threat for Transmission of Blood-Borne Infectious Disease Stanley, Samuel L. Semin Hematol Article As international travel and human encroachment into previously isolated areas have increased, so too has the potential for the emergence of new infectious diseases. Populations likely to be susceptible to new infectious diseases have also increased in size. The past three decades have seen outbreaks of diseases caused by parvoviruses, Nipah virus, circoviruses, and prions. Infectious pathogens such as these are formidable opponents; they can adapt to new hosts or cause variant diseases within new hosts. Many are also resistant to current inactivation techniques. In order to prevent or contain outbreaks, pathogens that emerge must be identified quickly and efficiently; research and ongoing global surveillance are therefore of primary importance. To effectively protect the blood supply and blood-based therapies, this research should include investigations into improved techniques for detection, screening, and viral inactivation, as well as into ways to reduce patient exposure to infectious pathogens via therapeutic agents. The proactive devotion of appropriate resources to infectious disease containment and prevention prior to an epidemic should be perceived as both essential public health policy and cost effective. Elsevier Inc. 2006-04 2006-04-21 /pmc/articles/PMC7111887/ /pubmed/16631823 http://dx.doi.org/10.1053/j.seminhematol.2006.02.004 Text en Copyright © 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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