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cord-027659-rxbo7b0e	Bates, Imelda	Blood Transfusion	2020-06-22		.txt	text/plain	4169	211	49	Hospital-based transfusion services place an enormous burden on laboratory resources and on the families of patients because they are responsible for fi nding suitable blood donors. 2 In wealthy countries with nationally or regionally centralized transfusion services, blood donor recruitment, and screening and processing of donated blood, are carried out in purpose-built centres which are separate from the hospitals where the blood is transfused. Infections with organisms that are common in tropical countries, such as HIV-1 and -2, hepatitis A, B, C and D, cytomegalovirus, syphilis, lyme borreliosis, malaria, babesiosis, American trypanosomiasis (Chagas' disease) and toxoplasmosis, can all be acquired through blood transfusions. Further research to assess the risks and benefi ts of screening blood for malaria is needed, particularly in relation to pregnant women and patients with HIV infection.	./cache/cord-027659-rxbo7b0e.txt	./txt/cord-027659-rxbo7b0e.txt