Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) seropositivity and hepatitis B surface antigenemia (HBSAG) among blood donors in Benin city, Edo state, Nigeria

African Health Sciences

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 55-58

  Umolu, Patience Idia ^a   Okoror, Lawrence Ehis ^a   Orhue, Philip ^a  

^a AMBROSE ALLI UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 2; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; LATEX AGGLUTINATION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NIGERIA; POSTTRANSFUSION HEPATITIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEROPREVALENCE; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ADOLESCENT; BLOOD; HEPATITIS B; MIDDLE AGED;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BLOOD DONORS; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGENS; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NIGERIA;

EID: 33646059187     PISSN: 16806905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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