Hepatitis C virus infection in Egyptian volunteer blood donors in Riyadh

The Lancet

Volumn 338, Issue 8764, 1991, Pages 459-460

  Saeed, AwadA ^a   Al Admawi, AhmedM ^a   Al Rasheed, Abdulmohsin ^a   Fairclough, Debbie ^a   Bacchus, Robby ^a   Ring, Christopher ^b   Garson, Jeremy ^b  

^a ARMED FORCES HOSPITAL   (Saudi Arabia)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BLOOD DONOR; EGYPT; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BLOOD DONORS; EGYPT; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; SAUDI ARABIA;

EID: 0025915105     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0140-6736(91)91094-B     Document Type: Letter

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