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ArticleEmerging infectious diseases2007

Blood transfusion and spread of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

Klaus Dietz, Günter Raddatz, Jonathan Wallis, Norbert Müller, Inga Zerr, Hans-Peter Duerr, Hans Lefèvre, Erhard Seifried, Johannes Löwer

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Article in Emerging infectious diseases, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
2.3field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
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Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 29 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Quality and Safety in Blood Supply in 2010.Transfusion medicine and hemotherapy : offizielles Organ der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Transfusionsmedizin und Immunhamatologie · 2010
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 7 institutions in 2 countries.

Klaus DietzUniversity of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany. klaus.dietz@uni-tuebingen.de
Günter Raddatz
Jonathan Wallis
Norbert Müller
Inga Zerr
Hans-Peter Duerr
Hans Lefèvre
Erhard Seifried
Johannes Löwer
University of Tübingen · DEEssen University Hospital · DEFreeman Hospital · GBGerman National Bone Marrow Donor Registry · DEGerman Red Cross · DEPaul Ehrlich Institut · DEUniversity of Göttingen · DE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) may be transmissible by blood. To prevent secondary transmission through blood components, several countries have started to exclude as donors persons who have received a blood transfusion. We investigated the effectiveness of this measure by using a dynamic age-structured model. It is the first such model based on epidemiologic data: 1) blood donor activities, 2) a case-control study on CJD, 3) age distribution of recipients, and 4) death of recipients of blood transfusions. The model predicts that an infection like vCJD, which has been introduced into the population by the alimentary route, could not become endemic by transfusion alone and that only <1% of cases would be avoided by excluding from blood donation those persons who have received a transfusion.

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Blood DonorsTransfusion ReactionAdolescentAdultAgedCreutzfeldt-Jakob SyndromeHumansIncidenceMiddle AgedModels, BiologicalPrevalenceRisk Factors

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PMID17370520
PMCPMC2725807
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