The RADAR repository: Providing a prospective perspective on the past

Transfusion

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1051-1053

  Benjamin, Richard J ^a  

^a AMERICAN RED CROSS BLOOD SERVICES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD BANK; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; SEROCONVERSION;

BLOOD DONORS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; DNA VIRUS INFECTIONS; FLAVIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; GB VIRUS C; HEPATITIS, VIRAL, HUMAN; HTLV-I INFECTIONS; HTLV-II INFECTIONS; HUMANS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TORQUE TENO VIRUS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; UNITED STATES; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 21644462112     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2005.00190.x     Document Type: Editorial

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