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  1. Removal of UK‐donor deferral for variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease: A large donation gain in Australia
  2. Perceived risk of HIV transmission by blood transfusion among gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (gbMSM) in Australia
  3. Is dual testing for hepatitis C necessary? Modelling the risk of removing hepatitis C antibody testing for Australian blood donations
  4. Removing hepatitis C antibody testing for Australian blood donations: A cost‐effectiveness analysis
  5. Comment on White paper on pandemic preparedness in the blood supply
  6. West Nile virus transfusion‐transmission risk in Australia associated with a seasonal outbreak in the United States
  7. An Outbreak of Japanese Encephalitis Virus in Australia; What Is the Risk to Blood Safety?
  8. Risk of variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease transmission by blood transfusion in Australia
  9. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 and Blood Safety: An Updated Review
  10. Current challenges of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 seroprevalence studies among blood donors: A scoping review
  11. HIV residual risk in Canada for apheresis source plasma donation without deferral for men who have sex with men
  12. Themed issue – focusing on donor assessment, motivation and vigilance
  13. Endoscopies, blood‐borne viruses and blood donors: time to move on from precaution
  14. Effect of HIV pre‐exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) on detection of early infection and its impact on the appropriate post‐PrEP deferral period
  15. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus‐2: implications for blood safety and sufficiency
  16. Modeling the West Nile virus transfusion transmission risk in a nonoutbreak country associated with traveling donors
  17. A Systematic Review of Interventions Used to Increase Blood Donor Compliance with Deferral Criteria
  18. Attitudes and willingness to donate blood among gay and bisexual men in Australia
  19. Blood donation amongst people who inject drugs in Australia: research supporting policy change
  20. HIV residual risk in Canada under a three‐month deferral for men who have sex with men
  21. Confirming transfusion‐transmitted viral infections in the molecular age: time to get back to the basic definition of infection for hemovigilance
  22. Blood safety assessment of hepatitis A outbreak linked to frozen pomegranate arils: are foodborne outbreaks an emerging blood safety risk?
  23. Excluding Occult Hepatitis B Infection before Assigning False-Positive Status to Non-Repeatable NAT Reactivity: Concerning Stolz et al. “Safe-Testing Algorithm for Individual-Donation Nucleic Acid Testing: 10 Years of Experience in a Low-Prevalence Cou...
  24. Tattoos, blood‐borne viruses and blood donors: a blood donor cohort and risk assessment
  25. Changing the deferral for men who have sex with men – an improved model to estimate HIV residual risk
  26. Undetectable does not equal untransmittable for HIV and blood transfusion
  27. No evidence for widespread Babesia microti transmission in Australia
  28. International forum on Occult hepatitis B infection and transfusion safety
  29. Modelling the risk of transfusion-transmitted syphilis: a reconsideration of blood donation testing strategies
  30. Estimation of human T-lymphotropic virus incidence in blood donors from observed prevalence
  31. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and blood transfusion safety
  32. Emerging infectious disease outbreaks: estimating disease risk in Australian blood donors travelling overseas
  33. Reconsideration of blood donation testing strategy for human T-cell lymphotropic virus in Australia
  34. Value of retaining HBsAg donor screening where HBV NAT and anti-HBc donor screening apply
  35. Hepatitis E virus RNA in Australian blood donors: prevalence and risk assessment
  36. HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and blood donation
  37. Hepatitis E virus seroepidemiology: a post-earthquake study among blood donors in Nepal
  38. Refining the risk estimate for transfusion-transmission of occult hepatitis B virus
  39. Re-evaluating the residual risk of transfusion-transmitted Ross River virus infection
  40. Detection of emergent strains of West Nile virus with a blood screening assay
  41. Hepatitis E
  42. The Epidemiology of Imported Malaria and Transfusion Policy in 5 Nonendemic Countries
  43. The residual risk of transfusion-transmitted cytomegalovirus infection associated with leucodepleted blood components
  44. First reported case of transfusion‐transmitted Ross River virus infection
  45. Hepatitis E virus: do locally acquired infections in Australia necessitate laboratory testing in acute hepatitis patients with no overseas travel history?
  46. Seroprevalence of Antibodies to Ross River and Barmah Forest Viruses: Possible Implications for Blood Transfusion Safety After Extreme Weather Events
  47. Hepatitis E Virus and Implications for Blood Supply Safety, Australia
  48. Infectivity of blood components from donors with occult hepatitis B infection - results from an Australian lookback programme
  49. A refined method for estimating the size of the potential blood donor pool in Australia
  50. Understanding noncompliance with selective donor deferral criteria for high-risk behaviors in Australian blood donors
  51. Hepatitis B virus nucleic acid amplification testing of Australian blood donors highlights the complexity of confirming occult hepatitis B virus infection
  52. Compliance with the current 12-month deferral for male-to-male sex in Australia
  53. A method for estimating the residual risk of transfusion-transmitted HBV infection associated with occult hepatitis B virus infection in a donor population without universal anti-HBc screening
  54. Implications of Dengue Outbreaks for Blood Supply, Australia
  55. Trends in transfusion-transmissible infections among Australian blood donors from 2005 to 2010
  56. Malaria antibody persistence correlates with duration of exposure
  57. Two cases of asymptomatic HBV “vaccine breakthrough” infection detected in blood donors screened for HBV DNA
  58. Surveillance of Transfusion-Transmissible Infections
  59. Duration of Ross River viraemia in a mouse model - implications for transfusion transmission
  60. Malaria antibody testing of Australian blood donors
  61. No evidence of a significantly increased risk of transfusion-transmitted human immunodeficiency virus infection in Australia subsequent to implementing a 12-month deferral for men who have had sex with men (CME)
  62. Can Blood Tranfusion Transmit Cancer? A Literature Review
  63. Assessing the safety and efficacy of a test-based, targeted donor screening strategy to minimize transfusion transmitted malaria
  64. Two HBV DNA+/HBsAg− blood donors identified by HBV NAT in Shenzhen, China
  65. The risk of dengue transmission by blood during a 2004 outbreak in Cairns, Australia
  66. Validation of an automated immunoglobulin G-only cytomegalovirus (CMV) antibody screening assay and an assessment of the risk of transfusion transmitted CMV from seronegative blood
  67. Comparison of the risk of viral infection between the living and nonliving musculoskeletal tissue donors in Australia
  68. Trends in Prevalence of Viral Infections in Australian Musculoskeletal Tissue Donors and Projections of Incidence and Residual Risk, 1993–2004
  69. Emerging viral threats to the Australian blood supply
  70. Estimating the risk of blood donation associated with HIV risk behaviours
  71. Reply
  72. The Risk of HIV, HBV, HCV and HTLV Infection Among Musculoskeletal Tissue Donors in Australia
  73. Comparison of two automated nucleic acid testing systems for simultaneous detection of human immunodeficiency virus and hepatitis C virus RNA and hepatitis B virus DNA
  74. Residual risk of transfusion-transmitted viral infections in Shenzhen, China, 2001 through 2004
  75. Evidence for undetected malaria infection in non-immune Australian travellers not taking chemoprophylaxis
  76. Erratum
  77. Residual risk of transfusion transmitted human immunodeficiency virus, hepatitis B virus, hepatitis C virus and human T lymphotrophic virus
  78. The Current Status and Potential Role of Laboratory Testing to Prevent Transfusion-Transmitted Malaria
  79. International Forum: 1
  80. The efficacy of a malarial antibody enzyme immunoassay for establishing the reinstatement status of blood donors potentially exposed to malaria
  81. Follow-up of six blood donors highlights the complementary role and limitations of hepatitis C virus antibody and nucleic acid amplification tests
  82. Improved efficiency of national HIV, HCV, and HTLV antibody testing algorithms based on sequential screening immunoassays
  83. Nucleic acid technology screening of Australian blood donors for hepatitis C and human immunodeficiency virus-1 RNA: comparison of two high-throughput testing strategies
  84. Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in Australian blood donors: estimation of risk and the impact of deferral strategies