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Assessment of infectious risk in clinical xenotransplantation: The lessons for clinical allotransplantation

Assessment of infectious risk in clinical xenotransplantation: The lessons for clinical... Xenotransplantation 2014: 21: 307–308 © 2014 John Wiley & Sons A/S doi: 10.1111/xen.12118 Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. XENOTRANSPLANTATION Editorial Assessment of infectious risk in clinical xenotransplantation: The lessons for clinical allotransplantation The infectious risk of clinical xenotransplantation donor animals and human recipients of porcine is unknown. Based on experience with human xenografts to prevent infectious transmission events [13]. allotransplantation, it has been assumed that the potential exists for the transmission of infection Despite this impressive progress, the actual risk with the viable cells or tissues of a xenograft [1–4]. of disease transmission in xenotransplantation This risk was amplified by concerns regarding the remains unknown. Early clinical data from a per- unique potential risk of the transmission of zoo- iod prior to optimal assay development suggested notic infectious agents of animal (swine) origin that transmission events were uncommon and into human recipients for which diagnostic tools might be unrecognizable among the expected infec- did not exist and the behavior of which was tions occurring in immunocompromised transplant unpredictable in the immunosuppressed human recipients [14–17]. However, significant progress graft recipient. The terms “xenosis,” “direct zoo- has been made in the microbiology of xenotrans- nosis,” and “xenozoonosis” were used http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Xenotransplantation Wiley

Assessment of infectious risk in clinical xenotransplantation: The lessons for clinical allotransplantation

Xenotransplantation , Volume 21 (4) – Jan 1, 2014

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© 2014 John Wiley & Sons A/S
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0908-665X
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1399-3089
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10.1111/xen.12118
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Xenotransplantation 2014: 21: 307–308 © 2014 John Wiley & Sons A/S doi: 10.1111/xen.12118 Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. XENOTRANSPLANTATION Editorial Assessment of infectious risk in clinical xenotransplantation: The lessons for clinical allotransplantation The infectious risk of clinical xenotransplantation donor animals and human recipients of porcine is unknown. Based on experience with human xenografts to prevent infectious transmission events [13]. allotransplantation, it has been assumed that the potential exists for the transmission of infection Despite this impressive progress, the actual risk with the viable cells or tissues of a xenograft [1–4]. of disease transmission in xenotransplantation This risk was amplified by concerns regarding the remains unknown. Early clinical data from a per- unique potential risk of the transmission of zoo- iod prior to optimal assay development suggested notic infectious agents of animal (swine) origin that transmission events were uncommon and into human recipients for which diagnostic tools might be unrecognizable among the expected infec- did not exist and the behavior of which was tions occurring in immunocompromised transplant unpredictable in the immunosuppressed human recipients [14–17]. However, significant progress graft recipient. The terms “xenosis,” “direct zoo- has been made in the microbiology of xenotrans- nosis,” and “xenozoonosis” were used

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Published: Jan 1, 2014

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