Screening for Arboviruses in Healthy Blood Donors: Experience from Karachi, Pakistan

Overview

Journal Virol Sin

Specialty Microbiology

Date 2022 Jul 21

PMID 35863605

Authors

Moiz Ahmed Khan

Kehkashan Imtiaz

Humaira Shafaq

Joveria Farooqi

Mohammad Hassan

Afia Zafar

Maureen T Long

Kelli L Barr

Erum Khan

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