Challenges of biobanking in South Africa to facilitate indigenous research in an environment burdened with human immunodeficiency virus, tuberculosis, and emerging noncommunicable diseases

Biopreservation and Biobanking

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 347-354

  Abayomi, Akin ^a   Christoffels, Alan ^b   Grewal, Ravnit ^c   Karam, Locunda A ^d   Rossouw, Catherine ^b   Staunton, Ciara ^e   Swanepoel, Carmen ^a   Van Rooyen, Beverley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STELLENBOSCH   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

^c Cape Haematology and Bone Marrow Transplant Unit   (South Africa)

^d Strategic Project Services   (South Africa)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOBANK; BIOINFORMATICS; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INFORMATION SYSTEM; NON COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AFRICA; TUBERCULOSIS; BIOLOGY; ETHICS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATHOLOGY; PRESERVATION; PROCEDURES; SPECIMEN HANDLING; STANDARDS;

BIOLOGICAL SPECIMEN BANKS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; PRESERVATION, BIOLOGICAL; SOUTH AFRICA; SPECIMEN HANDLING; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84890458260     PISSN: 19475535     EISSN: 19475543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/bio.2013.0049     Document Type: Article

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