Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection in Transfusion Recipients and Their Family Members

• NCJ Number: 107201
• Journal: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report Volume: 36 Issue: 10 Dated: (March 20, 1987) Pages: 137-140
• Date Published: 1987
• Length: 4 pages
• Corporate Author: Ctr's for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
• Sale Source: National Institute of Justice/; NCJRS Photocopy Services
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports (MMWR's) from V 36, N 12 (April 3, 1987) are retained at NCJRS.

Annotation

Clinical reports indicate that some people who have received multiple blood transfusions may have an increased risk for infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and, if infected, may have transmitted the virus to their sexual partners and, perinatally, to their infant children.

Abstract

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control has received a report of HIV infection among multiply transfused leukemia patients in New York City and several reports of transmission from multiply transfused persons to their sexual partners and newborn children. All these infected transfusion recipients received blood or blood components before routine screening of donated blood for HIV antibody was begun in the spring of 1985. Physicians should consider offering HIV antibody testing to some patients who received transfusions between 1978 and spring 1985, based on the likelihood of infection in a recipient and transmission from that recipient. Table and 9 references.