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The research result on the infection of new pathogenic microorganism series for wartime blood transfusion won a first-class Military Scientific and Technological Progress Award on October 27. Developed by the Microorganism Teaching and Research Office of the Fundamental Department of the No.2 Military Medical University with Qi Zhongtian as its director, this research result will provide technical guarantee for our army to conduct safe blood transfusion at wartime. Presently, this research result has been put into clinical application in over 10 military hospitals.
Blood transfusion is an important way to save the wounded in wartime. But in the process of blood transfusion, there's always the risk of infection by pathogenic microorganism. Presently, although there's strict screening process to guard against hepatitis virus, AIDs virus and syphilis leptospira, it still can't rule out the possibility of infection by other unknown infectious agents. For example, the newly discovered Hepatitis G virus and blood transfusion virus might be a great threat to the wartime blood transfusion safety of our army. With the cooperation of the Academy of Military Medical Sciences, the Microorganism Teaching and Research Office of the Fundamental Department of the No. 2 Military Medical University began to study this subject since 1995. They investigated the distribution of hepatitis and other infectious virus among the high-risk people group and analyzed their characters. They were the first to conduct the complete clone of a single full-length gene for Hepatitis G and formed the genetically modified Hepatitis G model in the world, which laid foundation for the research of hepatitis, prevention and test of infectious pathogeny. Their research result had been presented to 16 international conferences. 45 articles related to this research result were published on different journals or newspapers and has now been included in the teaching material for higher medical education.
By Zhang Ruquan and Xiao Xin
(December 23, PLA Daily)
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