Dengue and chikungunya viruses in blood donations: Risks to the blood supply?

Transfusion

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1279-1281

  Bianco, Celso ^a  

^a America's Blood Centers   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

AEDES AEGYPTI; AEDES ALBOPICTUS; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHIKUNGUNYA ALPHAVIRUS; DENGUE; DENGUE VIRUS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; VASCULARIZATION; VIREMIA; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS INFECTION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS; BLOOD; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NOTE; RISK FACTOR; SEROLOGY; VIROLOGY;

ALPHAVIRUS INFECTIONS; BLOOD DONORS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS; DENGUE; DENGUE VIRUS; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS; SEROLOGIC TESTS;

EID: 52049093475     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2008.01806.x     Document Type: Editorial

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