Enhancing bacterial safety of blood components
Sandra Ramirez-Arcos, Shigeki Miyata, Cheuk-Kwong Lee, Michel García-Otálora
Pathogen inactivation or bacterial screening
Carl McDonald, Jennifer Bearne
Bacterial risk remains even with bacterial culture or pathogen reduction
Richard Benjamin
How much additional safety does anti-HCV serology provide when individual-donation NAT is already in place?
Josephine Mitchell, Marion Vermeulen
Emerging arboviral infections and blood safety
Piya Rajendra, Heli Harvala, Helen Faddy
A web-based tool for modelling the residual risk of HIV transfusion transmission
Eduard Grebe
The Public Health Research Toolkit
Sheila O'Brien, Katy Davison
Horizon scanning and the Emerging Pathogens and Parasitology subgroup
Steven J. Drews, Evan Bloch
Watch the personal message of Brian Custer, who is the Chair of the TTID Working Party.
The In Focus section of this issue of Transfusion Today explores some of the recent work of the Transfusion Transmitted Infectious Diseases Working Party (TTID WP). The TTID WP has four subgroups with different areas of concentration. The subgroups are 1) Bacteria, 2) Emerging Pathogens and Parasitology, 3) Surveillance, Risk Assessment and Policy, and 4) Virology. During our WP meeting in Kuala Lumpur in June each subgroup reported on active areas of work. This In Focus summarises some of the work presented at the congress across divergent areas of TTID. The articles provide insight into the scope of TTID and our mission to inform members of the TTID WP and broader members of the ISBT community on a range of topics relevant to the prevention or mitigation of TTID. I hope you find these articles interesting and of value to blood safety in different settings. I want to thank the article authors for these contributions. If you want to find out more about the TTID WP and our work, please see the TTID section of the ISBT website.
