Laboratory reference values of complete blood count for apparently healthy adults in Ethiopia

Clinical Laboratory

Volumn 57, Issue 7-8, 2011, Pages 635-640

  Gelaye, Bizu ^a   Bekele, T ^b   Khali, A ^b   Haddis, Y ^b   Lemma, S ^c   Berhane, Y ^c   Williams, M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b International Clinical Laboratories   (Ethiopia)

^c ADDIS CONTINENTAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASOPHIL COUNT; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD SAMPLING; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MONOCYTE COUNT; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NORMAL HUMAN; REFERENCE VALUE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALTITUDE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DIET; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80051717719     PISSN: 14336510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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