Interpretation of pathogen load in relationship to infectivity and pathogen reduction efficacy

Pathogen Reduction of Plasma

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Methylene Blue Based Device for Pathogen Reduction in Human Plasma

Abstract Background Despite improvement in safety of plasma transfusion some virus transmission still remains a problem. So as World Health Organization (WHO) recommends, many countries developed Pathogen Reduction Technologies (PRT) to inactivate pathogens, in plasma components. The Methylene Blue (MB) based methods is one of the most universal one. The purpose of this research was, produce...

The Importance of Pathogen Load

It seems obvious that the number of pathogens should be important in the pathogenesis of an infectious disease [1,2]. The relationship between the pathogen load and severity is one of the most fundamental questions, and yet, strangely, one of the most difficult to answer [3]. One reason for this is that it is often rather difficult to determine the total pathogen load in an infected host, parti...

Dioecy, hermaphrodites and pathogen load in plants

Sex-specifi c investment in pathogen resistance and immunity has been widely reported in animals and to a much lesser degree in plants. Here, we investigated the incidence of fungal pathogens in dioecious versus hermaphroditic plant species. We found that direct studies on diff erences between males and females in disease resistance or pathogen incidence were rare or non-existent in plants, but...