Black market blood transfusions for Ebola: Potential for increases in other infections

Global Health Action

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Folayan, Morenike O ^a   Brown, Brandon ^b   Yakubu, Aminu ^c  

^a OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Department of Population Health and Disease Prevention University of California ^*  (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EFFECTS; AFRICA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLOODBORNE BACTERIUM; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HEPATITIS, VIRAL, HUMAN; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMAN; TRANSMISSION; UTILIZATION;

AFRICA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLOOD-BORNE PATHOGENS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HEPATITIS, VIRAL, HUMAN; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS;

EID: 84938124379     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v7.26356     Document Type: Letter

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