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Transfusion-transmitted malaria: donor prevalence of parasitaemia and a survey of healthcare workers knowledge and practices in a district hospital in Ghana

BACKGROUND: Transfusion-transmitted malaria (TTM) is a risk of transfusion that has not been well described in malaria endemic regions. The risk of the recipient getting malaria is related to the prevalence of malaria in the blood donors. There is however little information on the prevalence of mala...

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Autores principales: Owusu-Ofori, Alex, Gadzo, Dominic, Bates, Imelda
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4842271/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27108087
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-016-1289-3