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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 25, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 26, 1997
Bernard Horowitz, New Rochelle, NY (US);
Jay E. Valinsky, New York, NY (US);
Nicholas E. Geacintov, New York, NY (US);
Bolanle Williams, New York, NY (US);
Shanti B. Rywkin, Brooklyn, NY (US);
Henrietta Nunno, New York, NY (US);
New York Blood Center, Inc., New York, NY (US);
Abstract
The present invention concerns a process for inactivating an extracellular lipid enveloped human pathogenic virus and/or an intracellular human pathogenic virus which may be present in a blood cell composition containing ≧1×10,cells/ml by contacting that composition with a virucidally effective amount of at least one photoreactive compound having an absorption maximum of ≧630 nm, light and oxygen and/or a quencher. In one embodiment of the invention, the process is conducted under conditions whereby a structural integrity of greater than 80% of at least one type of blood cell contained within said composition is retained. Another embodiment of the invention relates to a process for inactivating an extracellular lipid enveloped human pathogenic virus and/or an intracellular human pathogenic virus which may be present in a composition containing at least one coagulation factor while retaining at least 77% of said coagulation factor by contacting said composition with a virucidally effective amount of at least one photoreactive compound, light and a quencher. The processes of the invention can be used to prepare blood products, which, in turn, are suitable for transfusion into a recipient in need of such transfusion.