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- noun British Plural form of
haemophiliac .
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Examples
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The only problem is that it was a matter of life and death for blood transfused people and haemophiliacs, since a serologic blood test using our virus antigen was already working at laboratory scale but awaited industrial and commercial development.
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In another scandal that hit the Socialist government, blood contaminated with HIV was given to haemophiliacs in the 1980s.
French patients sue over weight-loss drug linked to deaths Angelique Chrisafis in Paris 2010
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By 1984, Barré-Sinoussi and Montagnier had obtained several isolates of the novel human retrovirus, which they identified as a lentivirus, from sexually infected individuals, haemophiliacs, mother to infant transmissions and transfused patients.
Virologist Francoise Barre-Sinoussi Wins Nobel Prize Peggy 2008
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By 1984, Barré-Sinoussi and Montagnier had obtained several isolates of the novel human retrovirus, which they identified as a lentivirus, from sexually infected individuals, haemophiliacs, mother to infant transmissions and transfused patients.
Archive 2008-10-01 Peggy 2008
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By 1984, Barré-Sinoussi and Montagnier had obtained several isolates of the novel human retrovirus, which they identified as a lentivirus, from sexually infected individuals, haemophiliacs, mother to infant transmissions and transfused patients.
The 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - Press Release 2008
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But, when I realised that the virus could be the cause of AIDS and was present not only in gay men in France and the United States, and haemophiliacs, but also in African nations – so this was in September 1983 – I realised it could be big, okay?
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Many in the medical community believed the disease was being spread through a contaminated blood product imported into Iraq for the treatment of haemophiliacs.
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By 1984, Barré-Sinoussi and Montagnier had obtained several isolates of the novel human retrovirus, which they identified as a lentivirus, from sexually infected individuals, haemophiliacs, mother to infant transmissions and transfused patients.
French Scientists Win 2008 Nobel Prize for Discovery of HIV Ron Buckmire 2008
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- Post exposure prophylaxis (PEP) for high risk occupational and nonoccupational exposure (such as needlestick injuries among medical staff or rape) - Pre-exposure prophylaxis of high risk groups (for example, haemophiliacs) - HAART therapy to reduce sexual transmission among discordant couples (where one partner is HIV-positive and the other negative).
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Plasma is essential for transfusion to haemophiliacs and is imported because the country does not have the technology to extract it from donated blood.
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