Detection and analysis of blood donors seropositive for syphilis.
Adriana AttieCesar de Almeida NetoSteven S WitkinJuliana DerrigaAnna S NishiyaJerenice E FerreiraNatalia de Souza Xavier CostaNanci Alves SallesTila FacincaniJosé Eduardo LeviEster C SabinoVanderson RochaAlfredo Mendrone-JrSuzete C FerreiraPublished in: Transfusion medicine (Oxford, England) (2021)
There is a risk of transfusion-transmitted syphilis in blood banks that exclusively use the VDRL test for donor screening, as is currently the situation in some Brazilian blood centres, as well as in other blood centres around the world.