The long road to Babesia blood screening

The Long Road to Eradicate Rinderpest

Screening for Babesia microti in the U.S. Blood Supply.

BACKGROUND Babesia microti, a tickborne intraerythrocytic parasite that can be transmitted by means of blood transfusion, is responsible for the majority of cases of transfusion-transmitted babesiosis in the United States. However, no licensed test exists for screening for B. microti in donated blood. We assessed data from a large-scale, investigational product-release screening and donor follo...

The long road to wearable blood-cleansing devices.

in this way [6] . Automated peritoneal dialysis offers more freedom to the patients, but may be disadvantageous to continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) in terms of sodium removal, especially in so-called low transporters [7] . Thus, there is a great need for a more comfortable and effective renal replacement technique, also given the great shortage of donor kidneys. Ideally, such a ...

the long road to eradicate rinderpest

Long road to Sprinkles.