Use of overlapping synthetic peptides to characterize samples from blood donors with indeterminate results to hepatitis C virus core antigen

Vox Sanguinis

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 32-36

  León, Pilar ^a   López, José A ^a   Elola, Consuelo ^a   Lee, Stephen R ^b   Calmann, Mark ^b   Echevarría, José M ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^b Ortho McNeil Pharmaceutical Incorporated   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS C ANTIGEN; SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE;

ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ARTICLE; ASSAY; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD SAMPLING; COUNSELING; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BLOOD DONORS; EPITOPES; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODIES; HEPATITIS C ANTIGENS; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MASS SCREENING; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIRAL CORE PROTEINS;

EID: 0031707416     PISSN: 00429007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000030955     Document Type: Article

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