Sufficient blood, safe blood: Can we have both?

BMC Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Bönig, Halvard ^a   Schmidt, Michael ^a   Hourfar, Kai ^a   Schüttrumpf, Jörg ^a   Seifried, Erhard ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blood consumption; Blood safety; Donor deferral; Donor recruitment; Donor retention; Msm

Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACID;

AGING; AWARENESS; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD SAFETY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; DISEASE MARKER; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; NOTE; POPULATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL ORIENTATION; UNITED KINGDOM; VASCULARIZATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; EDITORIAL; MALE;

BLOOD DONORS; BLOOD SAFETY; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84859878929     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7015-10-29     Document Type: Note

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