Outcome of post-transfusion hepatitis C: Disease severity in blood-component recipients and their implicated donors

QJM: An International Journal of Medicine

Volumn 90, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 587-592

  Smith, B C ^a   Chapman, C E ^b   Burt, A D ^a   Toms, G L ^a   Bassendine, M F ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Newcastle Blood Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS C ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DONOR; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER HISTOLOGY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; SCHOOL CHILD; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEROTYPING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030930474     PISSN: 00335622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/qjmed/90.9.587     Document Type: Article

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