TY - JOUR
AU1 - Custer, Brian
AU2 - Stramer, Susan L.
AU3 - Glynn, Simone
AU4 - Williams, Alan E.
AU5 - Anderson, Steven A.
AB - EDITORIAL Transfusion-transmissible infection monitoring system: a tool to monitor changes in blood safety hat would later become known as the of these studies deserves comment because the results first case of documented transfusion- of the analyses provide important documentation of the transmitted human immunodeficiency experience outside the United States and may provide virus (HIV) in the United States occurred clues as to what might happen once the 1-year deferral in 1982, and the implicated donor was a for MSM is fully implemented by blood centers in the man who reported having sex with other men (MSM). United States. The emergence of acquired immune deficiency syn- The first article, by Germain, compares the pre- drome (AIDS) and the recognition that it could be dicted versus actual number of HIV-positive male transmitted by blood and blood products in the early donors when MSM deferral was changed from indefi- 1980s had profound effects on the US and international nite to a temporary deferral. In this analysis, four exist- 2,3 blood systems. Even before HIV was identified as the ing models with different numerical assumptions were etiologic agent or tests developed to screen for antibod- applied to Australia, the United Kingdom, and Canada 
TI - Transfusion‐transmissible infection monitoring system: a tool to monitor changes in blood safety
JF - Transfusion
DO - 10.1111/trf.13632
DA - 2016-06-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/transfusion-transmissible-infection-monitoring-system-a-tool-to-lzxetnrwOF
SP - 1499
EP - 1502
VL - 56
IS - 6pt2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -