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Blood Bank Screening

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Blood donor testing; Donor blood investigations

Introduction

Blood bank screening is the process of evaluating donated blood/blood components to ensure that the blood/blood component obtained is free of any transmissible pathogen. Screening usually involves a combination of an interview-based donor selection process and a series of laboratory-based testing of blood.

Blood transfusion safety is an important public health concern worldwide. The deferral of blood donors who are found to have positive screening tests for transfusion-transmitted infections has contributed immensely to the availability of safe blood. Currently, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that as a minimum, blood should be screened for HIV, hepatitis B (HBV), hepatitis C (HCV), and syphilis (World Health Organisation 2010b). Unfortunately even this minimum recommendation is not fully carried out in some developing countries so blood safety remains an important issue (Tagny et al. 2008).

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  1. Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, L69 3BX, UK

    Imelda Bates

  2. Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital/Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

    Alex Owusu-Ofori

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  2. Institut für Tropenmedizin, Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

    Peter G. Kremsner

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Bates, I., Owusu-Ofori, A. (2014). Blood Bank Screening. In: Hommel, M., Kremsner, P. (eds) Encyclopedia of Malaria. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8757-9_103-1

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