Socioepidemiological screening of serologically ineligible blood donors due to Chagas disease for the definition of inconclusive cases

Epidemiological screening combined with serological tests has become an important tool at blood banks for the characterization of donors with or without Trypanosoma cruzi infection. Thus, the objective of the present study was to describe the sociodemographic and epidemiological characteristics of b...

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Main Authors: Márcia M Ferreira-Silva, Gilberto A Pereira, Eliane Lages-Silva, Helio Moraes-Souza
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ) 2010-09-01
Series:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0074-02762010000600012