Expansion of Saudi Blood Donor Pool by Better Screening and Vaccination Practices [2]

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1159-1160

  Tamimi, Waleed ^a   Hajeer, Ali ^a   Qasem, Laila ^a   Alkhashan, Abdulla ^a   Alsohabani, Ahmad ^a   Bernvil, Stener ^a   Balkhy, Hanan ^a   Memish, Zaid ^a  

^a KING FAHAD MEDICAL CITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD DONOR; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LETTER; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAUDI ARABIA; SCREENING; VACCINATION;

BLOOD DONORS; HEPATITIS B; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; SAUDI ARABIA; VACCINATION;

EID: 0344825745     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CDLI.10.6.1159-1160.2003     Document Type: Letter

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