Low prevalence of transfusion-transmissible infections among voluntary blood donors in South India

Manoharan Mythreyee; Chinnappan Jayachandran; Murugesan Amudhan; Moorthy Sivashankar; Nagasundaram Mythily; Ramalingam Sekar

doi:10.3855/jidc.1731

Low prevalence of transfusion-transmissible infections among voluntary blood donors in South India

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Manoharan Mythreyee Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Government Theni Medical College, The Tamilnadu Dr. MGR Medical University, India
Chinnappan Jayachandran Blood Bank, Government Theni Medical College Hospital, Theni 625512, India
Murugesan Amudhan Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Government Theni Medical College, The Tamilnadu Dr. MGR Medical University, India
Moorthy Sivashankar Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Government Theni Medical College, The Tamilnadu Dr. MGR Medical University, India
Nagasundaram Mythily Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Government Theni Medical College, The Tamilnadu Dr. MGR Medical University, India
Ramalingam Sekar Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Government Theni Medical College, The Tamilnadu Dr. MGR Medical University, India

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https://doi.org/10.3855/jidc.1731

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TTI, HIV, HBV, HCV, syphilis, Blood transfusion, seroprevalence

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2011-02-09

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Mythreyee M, Jayachandran C, Amudhan M, Sivashankar M, Mythily N, Sekar R (2011) Low prevalence of transfusion-transmissible infections among voluntary blood donors in South India. J Infect Dev Ctries 5:410–412. doi: 10.3855/jidc.1731

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Vol. 5 No. 05: May 2011

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