Asymptomatic Leishmania infection in blood donors from a major blood bank in Northeastern Brazil: a cross-sectional study

Autor: Manoel Sebastião da Costa Lima Junior, Lucas Portela Silva, Fábia Carla da Silva Soares, Suzany Maria Ferreira, Herintha Coeto Neitzke-Abreu, Filipe Dantas-Torres, Maria Betania do Amaral Pinto, Ana Cristina Bezerra, Silvia Maria Lucena Montenegro, Roberto Werkauser, Kamila Gaudêncio da Silva Sales, Vlaudia Maria Assis Costa

Publikováno v: Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, Vol 62 (2020)
Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo; Vol. 62 (2020); e92
Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo; v. 62 (2020); e92
Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
Instituto de Medicina Tropical (IMT)
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Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, Volume: 62, Article number: e92, Published: 27 NOV 2020

This study has estimated the risk of Leishmania transmission via blood transfusion in one of the largest blood banks in Northeastern Brazil, where visceral leishmaniasis is endemic. Five hundred blood samples from donors were tested for circulating L

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