Author/Authors :
Luisa Gregori، نويسنده , , Nancy McCombie، نويسنده , , Douglas Palmer، نويسنده , , Paul Birch، نويسنده , , Samuel O Sowemimo-Coker، نويسنده , , Antonio Giulivi، نويسنده , , Robert G Rohwer، نويسنده ,
Abstract :
In 1999, the UK implemented universal leucoreduction as a precaution against transmission of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease by transfusion of domestic blood or red blood cells. We aimed to assess how effectively leucoreduction reduced infectivity of tr