Prevalence of hepatitis G virus and its strain variant, the GB agent, in blood donations and their transmission to recipients

Transfusion

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 651-656

  Roth, W K ^a   Waschk, D ^b   Marx, S ^c   Tschauder, S ^c   Zeuzem, S ^b   Bialleck, H ^a   Weber, H ^a   Seifried, E ^a  

^a Inst Transfusionsmedizin I   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE FOR TUMOR BIOLOGY AND EXPERIMENTAL THERAPY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEPATITIS G VIRUS; HEPATITIS VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREVALENCE; RECIPIENT; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0030997926     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1537-2995.1997.37697335162.x     Document Type: Article

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