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A likelihood-based method of identifying contaminated lots of blood product

Author(s) -

Marie Reilly,

E. Lawlor

Publication year - 1999

Publication title -

international journal of epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406

H-Index - 208

eISSN - 1464-3685

pISSN - 0300-5771

DOI - 10.1093/ije/28.4.787

Subject(s) - medicine , infectivity , infection risk , transmission (telecommunications) , suspect , risk of infection , immunology , intensive care medicine , biology , psychology , computer science , telecommunications , virus , genetics , criminology

In 1994 a small cluster of hepatitis-C cases in Rhesus-negative women in Ireland prompted a nationwide screening programme for hepatitis-C antibodies in all anti-D recipients. A total of 55 386 women presented for screening and a history of exposure to anti-D was sought from all those testing positive and a sample of those testing negative. The resulting data comprised 620 antibody-positive and 1708 antibody-negative women with known exposure history, and interest was focused on using these data to estimate the infectivity of anti-D in the period 1970-1993.

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