Incidence of Kell blood group in Kashmiri population attending blood bank SKIMS as donors

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Public Health

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 183-187

  Shah, Mohd Younus ^a   Shah, Faisal ^a   Shah, Faizan ^a  

^a SHER I KASHMIR INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Blood bank; blood donors; incidence; Kashmir; Kell; pregnant ladies; SKIMS

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD BANK; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD GROUP ABO SYSTEM; BLOOD GROUP B; BLOOD GROUP KELL SYSTEM; BLOOD GROUP O; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPANESE; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

EID: 84883623130     PISSN: 17556783     EISSN: 09746005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/1755-6783.116508     Document Type: Article

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