Prevalence of transmissible blood infections among blood donors at the University of Maiducuri Teaching Hospital, Maiduguri, Nigeria

East African Medical Journal

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 213-216

  Chikwem, J O ^b   Mohammed, I ^b   Okara, G C ^a   Ukwandu, N C D ^b   Ola, T O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAIDUGURI   (Nigeria)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD BANK; BLOOD DONOR; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 2; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INFECTION; MALE; MICROFILARIA; NIGERIA; NORMAL HUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SEROPREVALENCE; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD DONORS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NIGERIA; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS;

HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 2; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

EID: 0030869364     PISSN: 0012835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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