Blood Transfusion and Spread of Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

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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Main Authors: Klaus Dietz, Günter Raddatz, Jonathan Wallis, Norbert Müller, Inga Zerr, Hans-Peter Duerr, Hans Lefèvre, Erhard Seifried, Johannes Löwer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2007-01-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
blood transfusion
blood donors
variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
models
theoretical
biometry
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/13/1/06-0396_article

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