EDITORIALS |18 OCTOBER 2011
David A. Leiby, PhD
QUOTE- "What is not acceptable, however, is the status quo. With reports of 162 transfusion-associated cases of babesiosis probably representing only a fraction of actual cases and a potential causal or contributory role for babesiosis in the deaths of B. microti–infected blood recipients, the time to act is now."
Link to Editorial Here- https://annals.org/aim/fullarticle/475003/transfusion-associated-babesiosis-shouldn-t-we-ticked-off
2019 Study
QUOTE (Transfusion Transmitted Infections)- "The most frequently reported pathogens were Babesia spp in RBCs (16/23, 70%) and Staphylococcus aureus in platelets (12/30, 40%). "
Transfus Med Rev. 2019 Jan 25. pii: S0887-7963(18)30104-4. doi: 10.1016/j.tmrv.2019.01.001. [Epub ahead of print]
Transfusion-Transmitted Infections Reported to the National Healthcare Safety Network Hemovigilance Module.
Haass KA1, Sapiano MRP2, Savinkina A3, Kuehnert MJ4, Basavaraju SV4.
Link Here- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30930009
May 2019- FDA recommends testing for tick-borne illness in donated blood