Transmission of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) by Blood Transfusions Screened as Negative for HIV Antibody

25 February 1988

journal article
research article
Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine

Vol. 318 (8) , 473-478
https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198802253180803

Abstract

Since early 1985, blood donations in the United States have been screened for antibody to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). To identify instances of HIV transmission by antibody-negative donations, we investigated 13 persons seropositive for HIV who had received blood from 7 donors who were screened as negative for HIV antibody at the time of donation.

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