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- Title
An uncertain association between influenza season, recent influenza vaccination campaigns, and unconfirmed repeat reactive syphilis serology assay results in Canadian blood donors.
- Authors
Drews, Steven J.; Bodnar, Melanie; Gill, Balkar; Carson, David; Hawes, Gordon; Yi, Qi‐Long; Tran, Vanessa; Zhou, Hong Yuan; Bigham, Mark; O'Brien, Sheila F.; Yi, Qi-Long
- Abstract
Although vaccination has been linked to false-positive syphilis serology testing for decades,6 there is no evidence for deferring blood donors with a recent history of influenza vaccine. Abbreviations IIg immunoglobulin PHO Public Health Ontario ProvLab Provincial Laboratory for Public Health RPR rapid plasma reagin TPPA Treponema pallidum particle agglutination From October 2020 to January 2021, Canadian Blood Services noted an increase in repeat-reactive syphilis serology results that did not confirm with additional testing at two reference laboratories.
- Subjects
INFLUENZA vaccines; SYPHILIS; BLOOD donors; SEROLOGY; INFLUENZA
- Publication
Transfusion, 2022, Vol 62, Issue 2, p510
- ISSN
0041-1132
- Publication type
letter
- DOI
10.1111/trf.16786