Ayşe Sakioğlu, Behçet Uz, Bekir S. Kocazeybek, Burcu Parlak, Canan Eren, Cemile Sönmez, Cumhur Artuk, Elif Keskin, Erdal Özbek, Ertan Özyurt, Esra Karakoç, Fadile Yıldız Zeyrek, Fahri Yüce Ayhan, Harika Öykü Dinç, Hasan Irmak, İsmail Yasar Avcı, Kamuran Şanlı, Kazım Kıratlı, Levent Hayat, Levent Sağdur, Mehmet Özdemir, Mehmet Tevfik Yavuz, Muhsin Yıldırım, Murat Güler, Murat Yazıcı, Mustafa Altındiş, Mustafa Güney, Mustafa Yılmaz, Nesrin Gareayaghi, Nigar Ertuğrul Örüç, Nurgül Ceran, Özgür Rüştü Güner, Özlem Miman, Rıza Aytaç Çetinkaya , Rukiye Berkem, Rüveyda Uğur, Salim Yakut, Servet Uluer Biçeroğlu, Sevinç Yenice Aktaş, Sibel Eldemir, Soner Yılmaz, Şükran Köse, Tuba Kula Atik, Tufan Tuğrul Tuncay Ertop, Tuğba Kula Atik, Tunahan Ayaz, Yasemin Coşgun, Yasemin Heper
The field of transfusion microbiology is of particular importance since the use of blood, which is still the only source of human blood, as a life-saving medical product when necessary, concerns all parties and processes in terms of patient safety.
Microbiology has always been intertwined with transfusion medicine from the very beginning. With our current knowledge, viral hepatitis and later HIV have been observed as inevitable and persistent complications of transfusions long after the onset and development of transfusion. For more than four decades, blood centers have struggled with the control of these and other transfusion-transmitted microorganisms. In the years before the routine screening of hepatitis (especially hepatitis C), blood transfusions were accepted as the main mode of transmission of these agents. Subsequent HIV transmission could also be a major transfusion tragedy.
All these have taught us that the process must be managed with serious actions in ensuring blood transfusion safety. Today, even more unpredictable factors have emerged, and it seems that they will continue to emerge and besiege humanity.