Transfusion-transmitted malaria: Unpreventable by current donor exclusion guidelines? [4]

Transfusion

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 464-

  Purdy, Elizabeth ^b   Perry, Elizabeth ^a   Gorlin, Jed ^a   Jensen, Kathy ^a  

^a Memorial Blood Centers   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANEMIA; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HUMAN; LETTER; MALARIA; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; BLOOD DONORS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; GUIDELINES; HUMANS; MALARIA; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE;

EID: 1642285941     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2003.00352.x     Document Type: Letter

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