Effects of a major earthquake on blood donor types and infectious diseases marker rates

Transfusion Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 93-97

  Sönmezoglu, Meral ^a,e   Kocak, N ^b   Oncul O ^b   Ozbayburtlu S ^c   Hepgul, Z ^d   Kosan, E ^d   Aksu, Y ^c   Bayik, M ^a  

^a MARMARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b GATA HAYDARPASA TRAINING HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^c Zeynep Kamil Red Crescent Blood Bank   (Turkey)

^d Çapa Red Crescent Blood Bank   (Turkey)

^e MARMARA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Blood donation; Blood safety; Donor types; Earthquake; Viral markers

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD GROUP TYPING; DISASTER; DISEASE MARKER; EARTHQUAKE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INFECTION; SAFETY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD DONORS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLOOD-BORNE PATHOGENS; HUMANS; NATURAL DISASTERS; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 18644366050     PISSN: 09587578     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0958-7578.2005.00557.x     Document Type: Article

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