The Official Journal of the International Society of Blood Transfusion Vox Sanguinis reports on important novel developments in transfusion medicine. Original papers reviews and international fora are published on all aspects of blood transfusion and tissue transplantation comprising four main sections: 1) Transfusion - Transmitted Disease and its Prevention Identification and epidemiology of infectious agents transmissible by blood Bacterial contamination of blood components Donor recruitment and selection methods Pathogen inactivation 2) Blood Component Collection and Production Blood collection methods and devices (including apheresis) Plasma fractionation techniques and plasma derivatives Preparation of labile blood components Inventory management Hematopoietic progenitor cell collection and storage Collection and storage of tissues Quality management and good manufacturing practice Automation and information technology 3) Transfusion Medicine and New Therapies Transfusion thresholds and audits Haemovigilance Clinical trials regarding appropriate haemotherapy Non-infectious adverse affects of transfusion Therapeutic apheresis Support of transplant patients Gene therapy and immunotherapy 4) Immunohaematology and Immunogenetics Autoimmunity in haematology Alloimmunity of blood Pre-transfusion testing Immunodiagnostics Immunobiology Complement in immunohaematology Blood typing reagents Genetic markers of blood cells and serum proteins: polymorphisms and function Genetic markers and disease Parentage testing and forensic immunohaematology.

國際輸血學會官方期刊Vox Sanguinis報道了輸血醫學的重要新發展。關于輸血和組織移植各方面的原始論文綜述和國際論壇包括四個主要部分:1)輸血傳播疾病及其預防傳染性病原體的鑒定和流行病學血液細菌污染的血液組件傳播的病原體滅活供體招聘與選拔方法2)血液成分采集和生產血液采集方法和設備(包括apheresis)等離子體分離技術和等離子體不穩定的衍生品制備血液造血祖細胞收集組件庫存管理和存儲收集和存儲組織的質量管理和良好生產規范自動化和信息技術3)輸血醫學和新療法輸血閾值和審計Haemovigilance臨床試驗有關適當haemotherapy非傳染性的負面影響移植患者的輸血治療apheresis支持基因治療和免疫治療4)Immunohaematology和免疫遺傳學自身免疫血液學Alloimmunity的血液輸血前檢測免疫診斷免疫生物學補體免疫血液學血液分型試劑血細胞和血清蛋白遺傳標記:多態性和功能遺傳標記及疾病親代檢測和法醫免疫血液學。