Seroprevalence of human immunodeficiency virus, hepatitis B and C viruses and syphilis infections among blood donors at the Muhimbili National Hospital in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania

BMC Public Health

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Matee, Mecky I N ^a   Magesa, Pius M ^a   Lyamuya, Eligius F ^a  

^a MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HEPATITIS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; SAMPLE; SCREENING; SEROPREVALENCE; SEX; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUPERINFECTION; SYPHILIS; TANZANIA; BLOOD; BLOODBORNE BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HIV INFECTIONS; INFECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BLOOD DONORS; BLOOD-BORNE PATHOGENS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFECTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SYPHILIS; TANZANIA;

EID: 33644825792     PISSN: 14712458     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-6-21     Document Type: Article

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