Blood Donation Research Today is a free monthly online journal that collates and summarizes the latest research about Blood Donation, including details on blood types, blood group, leukemia, red cross.

Volume 1 (2005), Issue 8 (August)

1. Iron stores and vascular function in voluntary blood donors.
   Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol, 25(8): 1577-83. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. Screening the blood supply for West Nile virus RNA by nucleic acid amplification testing.
   N Engl J Med, 353(5): 460-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. West Nile virus among blood donors in the United States, 2003 and 2004.
   N Engl J Med, 353(5): 451-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. Nondeletional ABO*O alleles frequently cause blood donor typing problems.
   Transfusion, 45(8): 1331-4. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Multicenter performance evaluation of a transcription-mediated amplification assay for screening of human immunodeficiency virus-1 RNA, hepatitis C virus RNA, and hepatitis B virus DNA in blood donations.
   Transfusion, 45(8): 1258-66. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. Hepatitis B virus (HBV) DNA screening of blood donations in minipools with the COBAS AmpliScreen HBV test.
   Transfusion, 45(8): 1247-57. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. Genotype distribution and molecular epidemiology of hepatitis C virus in blood donors from southeast France.
   J Clin Microbiol, 43(8): 3624-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. The willingness to donate blood: an empirical analysis of socio-demographic and motivation-related determinants.
   Health Serv Manage Res, 18(3): 165-74. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. A study of the prevalence of iron deficiency and its related factors in blood donors of Yazd, Iran, 2003.
   Transfus Med, 15(4): 287-93. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. Knowledge, attitude and practice survey regarding blood donation in a Northwestern Chinese city.
    Transfus Med, 15(4): 277-86. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. Documented cases of post-transfusion malaria occurring in England: a review in relation to current and proposed donor-selection guidelines.
    Vox Sang, 89(2): 77-80. [Abstract] [Full-text]
12. Evaluation of an automated high-volume extraction method for viral nucleic acids in comparison to a manual procedure with preceding enrichment.
    Vox Sang, 89(2): 71-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
13. Grading and staging chronic hepatitis C and its relation to genotypes and epidemiological factors in Brazilian blood donors.
    Braz J Infect Dis, 9(2): 142-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
14. Screening of blood donors for hepatitis C virus RNA with the MagNA Pure-COBAS AmpliScreen method.
    Transfusion, 45(9): 1518-22. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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