A new strategy to improve the cost-effectiveness of human immunodeficiency virus, hepatitis B virus, hepatitis C virus, and syphilis testing of blood donations in sub-Saharan Africa: A pilot study in Burkina Faso

Transfusion

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2237-2240

  Kania, Dramane ^a   Sangaré, Lassana ^a   Sakandé, Jean ^a   Koanda, Abdoulaye ^a   Nébié, Yacouba Kompingnin ^a   Zerbo, Oumarou ^a   Combasséré, Alain Wilfried ^a   Guissou, Innocent Pierre ^a   Rouet, François ^a  

^a CENTRE MURAZ   (Burkina Faso)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; BURKINA FASO; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PILOT STUDY; SAFETY; SCREENING; SEROPREVALENCE; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; VIRUS DETECTION;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; BLOOD DONORS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BURKINA FASO; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; SYPHILIS;

EID: 70350450982     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2009.02276.x     Document Type: Article

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