A pool of repeat blood donors can be generated with little expense to the blood center in sub-Saharan Africa

Transfusion

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 735-741

  Allain, Jean Pierre ^a   Sarkodie, Francis ^b   Boateng, Peter ^b   Asenso, Kwame ^b   Kyeremateng, Ernest ^b   Owusu Ofori, Shirley ^b  

^a Cambridge Blood Centre   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AFRICA; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MALE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; THROMBOCYTE PRESERVATION;

ADULT; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; BLOOD BANKS; BLOOD DONORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 41149176214     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2007.01599.x     Document Type: Article

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