Prevalence of transfusion-transmitted Chagas disease among multitransfused patients in Brazil

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  De Paula, Erich V ^a   Goncales, Neiva S L ^a   Xueref, Serge ^b   Addas Carvalho, Marcelo ^a   Gilli, Simone C O ^a   Angerami, Rodrigo N ^a   Goncales Jr , Fernando L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BRAZIL; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMOGLOBINOPATHY; HEMOPHILIA; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREVALENCE; SEROPREVALENCE; ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL; BLOOD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MANDATORY TESTING; MIDDLE AGED;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BRAZIL; CHAGAS DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MANDATORY TESTING; MIDDLE AGED; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES;

EID: 39149127005     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-8-5     Document Type: Article

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