Blood Safety A Guide to Monitoring and Responding to Potential New Threats /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Shan, Hua (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Dodd, Roger Y. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Blood transfusion.; Hematology.; Infectious diseases.; Blood Transfusion Medicine.; Infectious Diseases.

This book offers a concise yet comprehensive overview on critical issues in monitoring and responding to new microbial threats to blood safety. It provides information on the current concerns and mechanisms for monitoring potential new infectious threats to blood safety, evaluates the response to th...

Table of Contents:

• Prediction and Prevention: Interventions to Enhance Blood Safety
• Assessing the Threat: Public Health
• Assessing the Threat: Public Concern
• Health Economics in Blood Safety
• Decision Systems
• HIV and Blood Safety
• vCJD Case Studies
• Case Study: West Nile Virus
• Zika Virus
• The Emergence of Zoonotic Pathogens as Agents of Concern in Transfusion Medicine
• Tick-Borne Infections: Beware the Tortoises Among Us
• International Collaboration for Improving Global Blood Safety, and for Monitoring and Responding to Potential Microbial Threats.