Detection of hepatitis C virus by polymerase chain reaction among Croatian blood donors and patients

Periodicum Biologorum

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 389-394

  Bingulac Popović, Jasna ^a   Grahovac, Blaženka ^a   Zambeli, Jadranka ^a   Mihaljević, Ivanka ^a   Dražić, Vesna ^a   Pirc Tiljak, Dubravka ^a   Petrovečki, Mladen ^b   Balija, Melita ^a   Grgičević, Damir ^a  

^a CROATIAN INSTITUTE OF TRANSFUSION MEDICINE   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Blood donors; Chronic HCV patients; HCV genotypes; Hepatitis C virus (HCV); Recombinant immunoblot assay (RIBA); Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT PCR)

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS C ANTIGEN; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; CROATIA; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTROIMMUNOASSAY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0031767478     PISSN: 00315362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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