Donor disclosure - a donor's right and blood bank's responsibility

Transfusion Alternatives in Transfusion Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 44-50

  Dontula, Sanjana ^a   Mathur, Ankit ^a   Kamaladoss, Theodore ^a   Adimurthy, Siddappa ^a   Jagannathan, Latha ^a  

^a Bangalore Medical Services Trust   (India)

Author keywords

Counseling; Donor disclosure; HBV; HCV; HIV; TTI

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD BANK; BLOOD DONOR; COUNSELING; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCIDENCE; INFECTION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSFUSION TRANSMISSIBLE INFECTION;

EID: 84866437972     PISSN: 12959022     EISSN: 1778428X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1778-428X.2012.01157.x     Document Type: Article

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