Assuring blood safety and availability: Zika virus, the latest emerging infectious disease battlefront

Affiliations

¹ Office of Blood, Organ, and Other Tissue Safety, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, National Center for Zoonotic and Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA.
² Office of Blood Research and Review, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD.

Editorial

Matthew J Kuehnert et al. Transfusion. 2016 Jul.

. 2016 Jul;56(7):1669-72.

doi: 10.1111/trf.13673.

¹ Office of Blood, Organ, and Other Tissue Safety, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, National Center for Zoonotic and Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA.
² Office of Blood Research and Review, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD.

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Comment on

Zika virus: a new threat to the safety of the blood supply with worldwide impact and implications.
Lanteri MC, Kleinman SH, Glynn SA, Musso D, Keith Hoots W, Custer BS, Sabino EC, Busch MP. Lanteri MC, et al. Transfusion. 2016 Jul;56(7):1907-14. doi: 10.1111/trf.13677. Epub 2016 Jun 9. Transfusion. 2016. PMID: 27282638 No abstract available.
Probable transfusion-transmitted Zika virus in Brazil.
Barjas-Castro ML, Angerami RN, Cunha MS, Suzuki A, Nogueira JS, Rocco IM, Maeda AY, Vasami FG, Katz G, Boin IF, Stucchi RS, Resende MR, Esposito DL, de Souza RP, da Fonseca BA, Addas-Carvalho M. Barjas-Castro ML, et al. Transfusion. 2016 Jul;56(7):1684-8. doi: 10.1111/trf.13681. Epub 2016 Jun 21. Transfusion. 2016. PMID: 27329551