Strategy to improve malaria surveillance system preventing transfusion-transmitted malaria in blood banks using molecular diagnostic
Abstract Background Malaria can be transmitted by blood transfusion through donations collected from asymptomatic or parasitic donors. The parasites are released into the bloodstream during its life cycle and will therefore be present in donated blood by infected individuals. All cases of transfusio...
Main Authors: | Sérgio Antônio Batista-dos-Santos, Daniel Roberto C. Freitas, Milene Raiol, Gleyce F. Cabral, Ana Cecília Feio, Marinete M. Póvoa, Maristela G. Cunha, Ândrea Ribeiro-dos-Santos |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2018-10-01
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Series: | Malaria Journal |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12936-018-2486-z |
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