Analysis of HBV infection after blood transfusion in Japan through investigation of a comprehensive donor specimen repository

Transfusion

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 878-884

  Matsumoto, Chieko ^a   Tadokoro, Kenji ^a   Fujimura, Kayoko ^a   Hirakawa, Shinichi ^a   Mitsunaga, Shigeki ^a   Juji, Takeo ^a  

^a JAPANESE RED CROSS MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; HEMAGGLUTINATION; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; INFECTION COMPLICATION; INFECTION RISK; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCREENING TEST; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

BLOOD DONORS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; DNA, VIRAL; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMANS; JAPAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0034934002     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1537-2995.2001.41070878.x     Document Type: Article

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