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Impact of Bacterial Contamination on Blood Supply

Author(s) -

Gabriele WaltherWenke,

Michael Schmidt

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

transfusion medicine and hemotherapy

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.971

H-Index - 39

eISSN - 1660-3818

pISSN - 1660-3796

DOI - 10.1159/000330431

Subject(s) - medicine , contamination , blood supply , syphilis , whole blood , blood units , blood transfusion , transfusion reaction , intensive care medicine , surgery , immunology , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , biology , ecology

Bacterial contamination of blood components is a long-standing problem affecting the safety of blood supply. Transfusiontransmitted syphilis was the first recognized bacterial infection transmitted by blood transfusions via vascular anastomosis, first described in 1915 and successfully eliminated mainly by reducing the frequency of infection and by donor screening [1]. The first fatality due to whole blood transfusion was reported in 1942 [2].

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