The Risk of Transmitting Toxoplasmosis by Blood Transfusion |
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| Authors: | Anne C. Kimball B. H. Kean and Aaron Kellner |
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| Affiliation: | Tropical Medicine Unit, Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine and the Department of Pathology, The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and The New York Blood Center, New York |
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Forty-three patients with thalassemia major who had received 4,805 transfusions were subjected to the dye test for toxoplasma antibodies. Only three (7%) were found to have subclinical toxoplasmosis, a rate of infection that is within the expected rate for this age group. This study, therefore, provides no evidence that toxoplasmosis was transmitted by transfusion. |
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