Screening and shouting about HCV

Gut

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 165-166

  Rosenberg, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; MASS SCREENING; NOTE; PRENATAL CARE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIREMIA; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE;

EID: 0033943158     PISSN: 00175749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/gut.47.2.165     Document Type: Note

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