Bacterial contamination of donor blood at the Tamale Teaching Hospital, Ghana

African Health Sciences

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 13-18

  Opoku Okrah, Clement ^a   Feglo, P ^a   Amidu, N ^a   Dakorah, M P ^a  

^a KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Bacteraemia; Donor blood; Ghana; Tamale teaching hospital

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPICILLIN; CEFUROXIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLOXACILLIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; TETRACYCLINE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD BANK; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GHANA; GRAM POSITIVE COCCI; HUMAN; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; BACTERIA; BLOOD; BLOOD STORAGE; CLASSIFICATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; DRUG EFFECTS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MICROBIOLOGY; STANDARDS; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; BLOOD; BLOOD BANKS; BLOOD PRESERVATION; COHORT STUDIES; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; GHANA; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS;

EID: 77949385875     PISSN: 16806905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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