Contribution of the Retrovirus Epidemiology Donor Study (REDS) to research on blood transfusion safety in Brazil

Contribution of the Retrovirus Epidemiology Donor Study (REDS) to research on blood transfusion safety in Brazil

The Retrovirus Epidemiology Donor Study (REDS) program was established in the United States in 1989 with the purpose of increasing blood transfusion safety in the context of the HIV/AIDS and human T-lymphotropic virus epidemics. REDS and its successor, REDS-II were at first conducted in the US, then...

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Main Authors: Paula Loureiro, Cesar de Almeida-Neto, Anna Bárbara Carneiro Proietti, Ligia Capuani, Thelma Terezinha Gonçalez, Claudia Di Lorenzo de Oliveira, Silvana Carneiro Leão, Maria Inês Lopes, Divaldo Sampaio, Giuseppina Maria Patavino, João Eduardo Ferreira, Paula Fraiman Blatyta, Maria Esther Duarte Lopes, Alfredo Mendrone-Junior, Nanci Alves Salles, Melissa King, Edward Murphy, Michael Busch, Brian Custer, Ester Cerdeira Sabino
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2014-04-01
Series:Revista Brasileira de Hematologia e Hemoterapia
Subjects:
Transfusion safety
Blood-borne infectious diseases
Blood donation
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