Compatibility of stabilized whole blood products with CD4 technologies and their suitability for quality assessment programs

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Ding, Tao ^a   Bergeron, Michèle ^a   Seely, Peggy ^a   Yang, Xuefen ^a   Diallo, Tamsir O ^a   Plews, Margot ^a   Sandstrom, Paul ^a   Ball, T Blake ^a,b,c   Meyers, Adrienne F A ^a,b,c  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD COMPATIBILITY; BLOOD STORAGE; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL COUNTING; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; QUALITY CONTROL; RELIABILITY; ROOM TEMPERATURE; STABILIZED WHOLE BLOOD PRODUCT; BLOOD; CELL COUNT; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC USE; EVALUATION STUDY; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS;

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCT;

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTS; BLOOD; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL COUNT; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84905661436     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0103391     Document Type: Article

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