Lack of correlation between different hepatitis C virus screening and confirmatory assays

Journal of Virological Methods

Volumn 59, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 141-146

  Berger, A ^a   Doerr, H W ^a   Preiser, W ^a   Weber, B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^b Laboratoire Lieners et Hastert   (Luxembourg)

Author keywords

EIA; HCV RT PCR; Immunoblot

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCREENING TEST; VIRUS DETECTION;

EID: 0029895816     PISSN: 01660934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0166-0934(96)02034-4     Document Type: Article

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