Blood safety begins with safe donations: Update among blood donors in Yaounde, Cameroon

Transfusion Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 395-399

  Mbanya, D N ^a   Tayou, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

Blood donors; Blood safety; Cameroon; HBsAg; HCV; HIV; Update

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; CAMEROON; CHROMATOGRAPHY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; SAFETY; SEROLOGY; BLOOD BANK; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; STANDARD; VIRUS INFECTION;

BLOOD BANKS; BLOOD DONORS; CAMEROON; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SAFETY; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 33644684619     PISSN: 09587578     EISSN: 13653148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3148.2005.00608.x     Document Type: Article

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