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Publications
Is the public ready for a tobacco-free Ireland? A national survey of public knowledge and attitudes to tobacco endgame in Ireland.
Tobacco control
The impact of the introduction of tobacco product plain packaging on consumer responses in Ireland: a real-world policy evaluation stratified by socioeconomic groups.
European journal of public health
The impact of non-disclosure of HIV status and antiretroviral therapy on HIV recency testing and incidence algorithms.
Vox sanguinis
Vulnerability to APOBEC3G linked to the pathogenicity of deltaretroviruses.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
A case-control study of risk factors for incident hepatitis B virus infection in South African blood donors.
International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases
HTLV-1 and blood donation.
British journal of haematology
Motivations for blood donation by HIV-positive individuals on antiretrovirals in South Africa: A qualitative study.
Transfusion medicine (Oxford, England)
Systemic cytokines and GlycA discriminate disease status and predict corticosteroid response in HTLV-1-associated neuroinflammation.
Journal of neuroinflammation
Blood Center Testing Allows the Detection and Rapid Treatment of Acute and Recent HIV Infection.
Viruses
Prevalence and Risk Factors for Human T-Cell Lymphotropic Virus (HTLV) in Blood Donors in Brazil-A 10-Year Study (2007-2016).
Frontiers in medicine
Somatic STAT3 mutations in CD8+ T cells of healthy blood donors carrying human T-cell leukemia virus type 2.
Haematologica
Trans-ancestral fine-mapping of MHC reveals key amino acids associated with spontaneous clearance of hepatitis C in HLA-DQß1.
American journal of human genetics
A novel high performing multiplex immunoassay Multi-HTLV for serological confirmation and typing of HTLV infections.
PLoS neglected tropical diseases
A multi-ancestry sex stratified genome-wide association study of spontaneous clearance of hepatitis C virus.
The Journal of infectious diseases
Trends in serological markers of transfusion transmissible infections in blood donations at the Bamenda Hospital-based Blood Service, Cameroon.
Transfusion clinique et biologique : journal de la Societe francaise de transfusion sanguine
Phenotypic and Functional Analyses Guiding Combination Immune Checkpoint Immunotherapeutic Strategies in HTLV-1 Infection.
Frontiers in immunology
Correction: Multi-ancestry fine mapping of interferon lambda and the outcome of acute hepatitis C virus infection.
Genes and immunity
Multi-ancestry fine mapping of interferon lambda and the outcome of acute hepatitis C virus infection.
Genes and immunity
NT-proBNP levels in the identification and classification of pulmonary transfusion reactions.
Transfusion
HIV incidence in South African blood donors from 2012 to 2016: a comparison of estimation methods.
Vox sanguinis
Are different motivations and social capital score associated with return behaviour among Brazilian voluntary non-remunerated blood donors?
Transfusion medicine (Oxford, England)
Early and sustained improvement in fatigue-related quality of life following red blood cell transfusion in outpatients.
Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation
Antenatal blood transfusion in South Africa: indications and practice in a high-HIV-prevalence setting.
Transfusion
The epidemiology of platelet transfusions: an analysis of platelet use at 12 US hospitals.
Transfusion
Occult hepatitis B infection among blood donors from Yaoundé, Cameroon.
Blood transfusion = Trasfusione del sangue
Proficiency Testing of Viral Marker Screening in African Blood Centers - Seven African Countries, 2017.
MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report
Methodological considerations for linked blood donor-component-recipient analyses in transfusion medicine research.
ISBT science series
Discovery of False Elite Controllers: HIV Antibody-Positive RNA-Negative Blood Donors Found To Be on Antiretroviral Therapy.
The Journal of infectious diseases
The prevalence of human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 & 2 (HTLV-1/2) in South African blood donors.
Vox sanguinis
Therapeutic impact of red blood cell transfusion on anemic outpatients: the RETRO study.
Transfusion
Multi-Ancestry Genome-Wide Association Study of Spontaneous Clearance of Hepatitis C Virus.
Gastroenterology
Long-Term Outcomes Among Patients Discharged From the Hospital With Moderate Anemia: A Retrospective Cohort Study.
Annals of internal medicine
Frequent blood donations alter susceptibility of red blood cells to storage- and stress-induced hemolysis.
Transfusion
Updated characteristics of blood services, donors and blood products in 11 French-speaking African countries.
Vox sanguinis
Contemporary Risk Factors and Outcomes of Transfusion-Associated Circulatory Overload.
Critical care medicine
The price of blood is measured in iron.
Lancet (London, England)
Use of Blood Donor Screening to Monitor Prevalence of HIV and Hepatitis B and C Viruses, South Africa.
Emerging infectious diseases
Ethnicity, sex, and age are determinants of red blood cell storage and stress hemolysis: results of the REDS-III RBC-Omics study.
Blood advances
Statistical Caution in Big Data Approaches to Transfusion Medicine Research.
JAMA internal medicine
Differentiating pulmonary transfusion reactions using recipient and transfusion factors.
Transfusion
Levosimendan in Patients with Left Ventricular Dysfunction Undergoing Cardiac Surgery.
The New England journal of medicine
Correlation of West Nile Virus Incidence in Donated Blood with West Nile Neuroinvasive Disease Rates, United States, 2010-2012.
Emerging infectious diseases
Reducing the global burden of HTLV-1 infection: An agenda for research and action.
Antiviral research
Measuring incidence of HTLV-1: the other human retrovirus.
The Lancet. Infectious diseases
Telomere Length, Proviral Load and Neurologic Impairment in HTLV-1 and HTLV-2-Infected Subjects.
Viruses
A retrospective analysis of false-positive infectious screening results in blood donors.
Transfusion
Recipient clinical risk factors predominate in possible transfusion-related acute lung injury.
Transfusion
The impact of HIV-associated anaemia on the incidence of red blood cell transfusion: implications for blood services in HIV-endemic countries.
Transfusion and apheresis science : official journal of the World Apheresis Association : official journal of the European Society for Haemapheresis
Improved clinical outcomes and survival following repair of acute type A aortic dissection in the current era.
Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery
Decreased red blood cell use and mortality in hospitalized patients.
JAMA internal medicine
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Revista brasileira de hematologia e hemoterapia
Prospective study on the clinical course and outcomes in transfusion-related acute lung injury*.
Critical care medicine
Predicting red blood cell transfusion in hospitalized patients: role of hemoglobin level, comorbidities, and illness severity.
BMC health services research
Clonality of HTLV-2 in natural infection.
PLoS pathogens
Contribution of the Retrovirus Epidemiology Donor Study (REDS) to research on blood transfusion safety in Brazil.
Revista brasileira de hematologia e hemoterapia
Screening for hepatitis C virus infection in a high prevalence country by an antigen/antibody combination assay versus a rapid test.
Journal of virological methods
Seroprevalence and demographic determinants of human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 and 2 infections among first-time blood donors--United States, 2000-2009.
The Journal of infectious diseases
Health outcomes in recipients of blood transfusion - observational studies versus randomized clinical trials.
ISBT science series
Laboratory variables for assessing iron deficiency in REDS-II Iron Status Evaluation (RISE) blood donors.
Transfusion
Sexual transmission of hepatitis C virus among monogamous heterosexual couples: the HCV partners study.
Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.)
Risk factors and outcomes in transfusion-associated circulatory overload.
The American journal of medicine
Lüer's lure: from an international standards perspective.
Anesthesiology
The increasing burden of mortality from viral hepatitis in the United States.
Annals of internal medicine
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute retrovirus epidemiology donor studies (Retrovirus Epidemiology Donor Study and Retrovirus Epidemiology Donor Study-II): twenty years of research to advance blood product safety and availability.
Transfusion medicine reviews
Human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 and type 2 seroprevalence, incidence, and residual transfusion risk among blood donors in Brazil during 2007-2009.
AIDS research and human retroviruses
Population-based screening for anemia using first-time blood donors.
American journal of hematology
BMI and obesity in US blood donors: a potential public health role for the blood centre.
Public health nutrition
The impact of HFE mutations on haemoglobin and iron status in individuals experiencing repeated iron loss through blood donation*.
British journal of haematology
HTLV-2 APH-2 expression is correlated with proviral load but APH-2 does not promote lymphocytosis.
The Journal of infectious diseases
Blood transfusion safety in Africa: a literature review of infectious disease and organizational challenges.
Transfusion medicine reviews
Donation frequency of blood donors participating in a prospective cohort study of iron status.
Transfusion
Hepatitis C virus prevalence and clearance among US blood donors, 2006-2007: associations with birth cohort, multiple pregnancies, and body mass index.
The Journal of infectious diseases
Increased all-cause and cancer mortality in HTLV-II infection.
Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999)
Decreasing trends in HTLV-1/2 but stable HIV-1 infection among replacement donors in Argentina.
Journal of medical virology
Human immunodeficiency virus test-seeking blood donors in a large blood bank in São Paulo, Brazil.
Transfusion
Preexisting infection with human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 2 neither exacerbates nor attenuates simian immunodeficiency virus SIVmac251 infection in macaques.
Journal of virology
Determinants of subject visit participation in a prospective cohort study of HTLV infection.
BMC medical research methodology
Profile of blood donors with serologic tests reactive for the presence of syphilis in São Paulo, Brazil.
Transfusion
Long-term increases in lymphocytes and platelets in human T-lymphotropic virus type II infection.
Blood
Increased all-cause, liver, and cardiac mortality among hepatitis C virus-seropositive blood donors.
American journal of epidemiology
Factors influencing donor return.
Transfusion
Relationship between human T lymphotropic virus (HTLV) type 1/2 viral burden and clinical and treatment parameters among patients with HIV type 1 and HTLV-1/2 coinfection.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Long-term variations in human T lymphotropic virus (HTLV)-I and HTLV-II proviral loads and association with clinical data.
The Journal of infectious diseases
Proposal for diagnostic criteria of tropical spastic paraparesis/HTLV-I-associated myelopathy (TSP/HAM).
AIDS research and human retroviruses
Human T lymphotropic virus type I/II infection: prevalence and risk factors in individuals testing for HIV in counseling centers from Southern Brazil.
Sexually transmitted diseases
Correlates of hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA negativity among HCV-seropositive blood donors.
Transfusion
HTLV in the Americas: challenges and perspectives.
Revista panamericana de salud publica = Pan American journal of public health
Community blood supply model: development of a new model to assess the safety, sufficiency, and cost of the blood supply.
Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making
A prospective study of sexual transmission of human T lymphotropic virus (HTLV)-I and HTLV-II.
The Journal of infectious diseases
Human T lymphotropic virus type II infection and humoral responses to pneumococcal polysaccharide and tetanus toxoid vaccines.
The Journal of infectious diseases
Quantitation of HTLV-I and II proviral load using real-time quantitative PCR with SYBR Green chemistry.
Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology
Higher human T lymphotropic virus (HTLV) provirus load is associated with HTLV-I versus HTLV-II, with HTLV-II subtype A versus B, and with male sex and a history of blood transfusion.
The Journal of infectious diseases
Increased mortality associated with HTLV-II infection in blood donors: a prospective cohort study.
Retrovirology
Respiratory and urinary tract infections, arthritis, and asthma associated with HTLV-I and HTLV-II infection.
Emerging infectious diseases
Increased human T-lymphotropic virus type II proviral load following highly active retroviral therapy in HIV-coinfected patients.
Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999)
Pulmonary function testing in HTLV-I and HTLV-II infected humans: a cohort study.
BMC pulmonary medicine
Lapsed donors: an untapped resource.
Transfusion
Lack of relation between human T-lymphotropic virus type I infection and systemic lupus erythematosus in Jamaica, West Indies.
Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes