and the dengue virus fluorogenic quantitative PCR. Although we did not collect the neonate's cord blood samples which could act as a direct evidence of vertical transmission, the clinical ...

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a series of genetic blood abnormalities. Due to hemoglobin damage, your red blood cells (RBCs) lose their adaptable donut shape and adopt a "C" shape. These cells become ...

aDepartment of Health Metric Sciences, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA bDepartment of Medicine, Division of Hematology, University of Washington ...

Although studies have highlighted some connections between climate change, transfusion-transmissible infections, and blood safety ... also projected to intensify the transmission of other vector-borne ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a travel advisory for Mexico and 19 other countries due to a ...

The majority of these infants receive transfusions of packed red blood cells, usually based on haemoglobin values below a certain threshold. The haemoglobin or haematocrit thresholds used to guide ...