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. 2015 May 18;55(10):2312–2320. doi: 10.1111/trf.13149

Table 7.

Frequency of transfusion transmitted bacterial infections of conventional PCs and of INTERCEPT PCs based on national French and Swiss hemovigilance data*

Conventional PLTs INTERCEPT PLTs
Year Number of units transfused Transfusion-transmitted infections (fatalities) Number of units transfused Transfusion-transmitted infections
French data
2006 231,853 4 (0) 6,420 0
2007 232,708 9 (2) 15,393 0
2008 239,349 6 (1) 15,544 0
2009 241,634 9 (0) 21,767 0
2010 253,149 2 (1) 22,632 0
2011 267,785 3 (1) 22,392 0
2012 275,834 7 (2) 24,849 0
2013 278,234 4 (1) 25,089 0
Swiss data
2010 29,900 1 (0) 0 0
2011 6,600 0 26,500 0
2012 0 0 34,265 0
2013 0 0 34,750 0
Total 2,057,046 45 (8) 249,601 0
*

One-sided Fisher’s exact test analysis provided the following values for the assessment of statistical significance: p value French data = 0.039; p value Swiss data = 0.277; p value combined = 0.006.

French hemovigilance data.39,41

Swiss hemovigilance data.4245