Prevalence of Leptospira antibodies in U.S. Army blood bank donors in Hawaii

Military Medicine

Volumn 169, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 687-690

  Lettieri, Christopher ^a   Moon, James ^a   Hickey, Patrick ^a   Gray, Michael ^b   Berg, Benjamin ^a   Hospenthal, Duane ^c  

^a TRIPLER ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VETCOM Food Anal/Diagn Laboratory   (United States)

^c BROOKE ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGGLUTINATION TEST; ARMY; ARTICLE; BLOOD BANK; BLOOD DONOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; SEROPREVALENCE; SOLDIER; UNITED STATES; ADOLESCENT; BLOOD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BLOOD BANKS; BLOOD DONORS; FEMALE; HAWAII; HUMANS; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES;

EID: 16544376000     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED.169.9.687     Document Type: Article

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