Low prevalence of transfusion-transmissible infections among voluntary blood donors in South India

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 410-412

  Mythreyee, Manoharan ^a   Jayachandran, Chinnappan ^b   Amudhan, Murugesan ^a   Sivashankar, Moorthy ^a   Mythily, Nagasundaram ^a   Sekar, Ramalingam ^a  

^a Government Theni Medical College   (India)

^b Government Theni Medical College Hospital   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS ANTIBODY;

BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INDIA; LETTER; SCREENING TEST; SEROPREVALENCE; SYPHILIS;

EID: 79958169658     PISSN: 20366590     EISSN: 19722680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3855/jidc.1731     Document Type: Letter

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