TTD- What's New in Transfusion-Transmitted Infections?
Program Code: 9101-S
Saturday, October 24, 2009
10:30 AM to 12:00 PM (ET)

MODERATOR
Louis Katz, MD

SPEAKERS
Susan Stramer, PhD, American Red Cross Biomedical Services
Michael Busch, MD, PhD, Blood Systems, Inc.; & Blood Systems Research Institute
Lyle Petersen, MD, MPH, CDC

DESCRIPTION
The speakers in this session will discuss the proposed use of selected testing strategies for selected emerging infections, a new TRANSFUSION supplement on emerging infection agents offering risk to the blood supply, and the mechanisms underlying the risk of emergence of arthropod-borne viruses in the US.