Diphtheria and tetanus immunity among blood donors in Toronto

CMAJ. Canadian Medical Association Journal

Volumn 156, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 985-990

  Yuan, Lilian ^a   Lau, Wendy ^b   Thipphawong, John ^c   Kasenda, Margareth ^a   Xie, Fang ^a   Bevilacqua, Joan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Canadian Red Cross Society   (Canada)

^c Division of Pathology   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPHTHERIA ANTIBODY; TETANUS ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; DIPHTHERIA; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMUNITY; IMMUNIZATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SEROPREVALENCE; TETANUS; VACCINATION;

EID: 0030977742     PISSN: 08203946     EISSN: 14882329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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