Prevalence of HTLV-I virus in blood donors and transfusion in Mali: Implications for blood safety

Transfus Clin Biol. 2014 Jun;21(3):139-42. doi: 10.1016/j.tracli.2014.05.002. Epub 2014 Jun 16.

¹ National Blood Transfusion Center, BP E344, Bamako, Mali. Electronic address: amadoubdiarra@yahoo.fr.
² National Blood Transfusion Center, BP E344, Bamako, Mali; Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bamako, Mali.
³ Centre de recherche et de lutte contre la drépanocytose, Bamako, Mali.
⁴ Hôpital Gabriel-Toure, Bamako, Mali.
⁵ National Blood Transfusion Center, BP E344, Bamako, Mali.
⁶ Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bamako, Mali.
⁷ Service de néphrologie, hôpital du Point-G, Bamako, Mali.
⁸ University of California San Francisco and Blood Systems Research Institute, San Francisco, CA, USA.
⁹ Centre de recherche et de lutte contre la drépanocytose, Bamako, Mali; Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bamako, Mali.

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Keywords: Blood donors; Donneurs de sang; HTLV-1; Multi-transfused patients; Patients polytransfusés.

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