Low impact of silent hepatitis B virus infection in posttransfusion hepatitis in Venezuela;Bajo impacto de la infección silente por el virus de la hepatitis B en la incidencia de hepatitis postransfusional en Venezuela

Revista Panamericana de Salud Publica/Pan American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 382-387

  Gutiérrez, Cristina ^a   León, Graciela ^a,b   Liprandi, Ferdinando ^a,b   Pujol, Flor H ^a,b  

^a Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas Centro de Microbiologia y Biologia Celular   (Venezuela)

^b Banco Munic Sangre Distrito F   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOTRANSFERASE; CHLOROFORM; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; PHENOL; PROTEINASE K; VIRUS DNA;

HEALTH RISK; HEPATITIS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE;

ADULT; AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; DNA EXTRACTION; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTTRANSFUSION HEPATITIS; SERODIAGNOSIS; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION; VENEZUELA; VIRUS CAPSID; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

VENEZUELA;

EID: 0035686408     PISSN: 10204989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s1020-49892001001200003     Document Type: Article

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