Emerging Infectious Diseases Featured at ICAAC/IDSA Meeting

摘要

An increasingly critical shortage of human donors has limited the availability and benefit of organ and tissue transplantation. This chronic shortage, coupled with recent scientific and biotechnological advances, has been a catalyst for new therapeutic approaches directed at using animal tissues in humans. The use of xenogeneic tissues and organs for transplantation or perfusion has raised concerns about the potential of both recognized zoonotic pathogens and unknown xenogeneic agents to infect individual human recipients and then spread through human populations.