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To the Editor: The virtual elimination of the risk of transmitting the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) by the transfusion of screened blood is a triumph of transfusion medicine, as the analysis by Lackritz et al. (Dec. 28 issue)¹ shows. Remarkably similar data have emerged from a virologic analysis in which we directly determined the rate of HIV infection among donors that was not discovered because of the window period before seroconversion or because of errors during laboratory testing.

We isolated peripheral-blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) from samples of 200,000 fully screened blood donations made available for virologic investigation from November 1, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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