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ArticleTransfusion medicine and hemotherapy : offizielles Organ der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Transfusionsmedizin und Immunhamatologie2013

No detection of the retrovirus xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus in individuals with hemophilia.

Jörg Schüttrumpf, M Kai Hourfar, Sonja Alesci, Wolfgang Miesbach, Erhard Seifried, Michael Schmidt

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Article in Transfusion medicine and hemotherapy : offizielles Organ der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Transfusionsmedizin und Immunhamatologie, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Jörg SchüttrumpfInstitut für Transfusionsmedizin und Immunhämatologie, Klinikum der Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität, DRK-Blutspendedienst Baden-Württemberg - Hessen, Frankfurt/M., Germany ; Chemotherapeutisches Forschungsinstitut Georg-Speyer-Haus, Frankfurt/M., Germany.
M Kai Hourfar
Sonja Alesci
Wolfgang Miesbach
Erhard Seifried
Michael Schmidt
DRK-Blutspendedienst Baden-Württemberg - Hessen · DEGoethe University Frankfurt · DE

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Abstract

backgroundXenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus (XMRV) is a retrovirus that has recently been related to prostate cancers and chronic fatigue syndrome. Since other human-pathogenic retroviruses, such as HIV, human T-lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) and -II, are known blood-transmitted pathogens, XMRV might present another hazard associated with products derived from in vitro cultures of human or animal origin, or blood component-based therapeutics. Here, we investigated whether XMRV was transmitted to individuals with hemophilia and frequent exposure to plasma-derived or recombinant clotting factors.

methodsWe used highly sensitive real-time PCR to test plasma samples from 127 consecutive individuals with hemophilia who consulted our hemophilia center either for treatment or for a standard check-up.

resultsFrom the 127 hemophiliacs, 80 had prior contact to persons with either hepatitis B (n = 30), hepatitis C (n = 74) and/or HIV (n = 21), and 30 were currently being treated with plasma-derived and 97 with recombinant factor concentrates. None of the individuals tested positive for XMRV.

conclusionsIndependent of the ongoing discussion on whether the positive XMRV testing in initial reports was a result of reagent, sample, or tissue contamination, and whether XMRV is a real threat or a testing artifact, our data suggest that XMRV might not play an important role for hemophiliacs.

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HemophiliaPlasma productsVirus contaminationVirus safetyXMRV

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