Accessing Biospecimens from the H3Africa Consortium

Biopreservation and Biobanking

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 95-98

  Beiswanger, Christine M ^a,b   Abimiku, Alash'Le ^b,c   Carstens, Nadia ^d   Christoffels, Alan ^e   De Vries, Jantina ^f   Duncanson, Audrey ^g   Du Plessis, Morne ^h   Giovanni, Maria ⁱ   Littler, Katherine ^g   Mulder, Nicola ^h   Troyer, Jennifer ^j   Wideroff, Louise ^k  

^a Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Biology of Hematopoiesis   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF HUMAN VIROLOGY NIGERIA   (Nigeria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^e UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^g WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

ⁱ NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^j NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^k NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; BIOBANK; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL SOCIETY; METHODOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 85018617893     PISSN: 19475535     EISSN: 19475543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/bio.2017.0008     Document Type: Article

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