Dried sera for confirming blood-borne virus infections (HCV, HTLV-I, HIV and HBsAg)

Transfusion Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 319-323

  Das, P C ^a   De Vries, A H ^a   McShine, R L ^a   Smit Sibinga, C Th ^a  

^a CENTRAL LABORATORY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

bloodborne viruses; confirmation virus antibody; dry sera; HCV antibody; HIV antibody; HTLV I antibody

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030497652     PISSN: 09587578     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3148.1996.tb00090.x     Document Type: Article

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