Maternal and fetal hepatitis C virus exposure by intrauterine transfusion

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Volumn 355, Issue 9218, 2000, Pages 1887-1888

  Geulen, Oliver ^a   Hansmann, Manfred ^a   Offergeld, Ruth ^a   Kaiser, Rolf ^a   Dame, Christof ^a   Hoch, Jochen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE BLOOD TRANSFUSION; MALE; MATERNAL DISEASE; NEWBORN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 0034720524     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(00)02299-6     Document Type: Article

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