Clinical and epidemiological assessment of hepatitis C virus infection among voluntary blood donors

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2002, Pages

  Łabȩdzka, Hanna ^a   Simon, Krzysztof ^a   Gładysz, Andrzej ^a  

^a WROCLAW MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Chronic hepatitis C; Hepatitis C virus (HCV); Voluntary blood donors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; LIVER BIOPSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; VIRUS HEPATITIS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ADOLESCENT; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; LIVER; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POLAND; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; VIROLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BLOOD DONORS; FEMALE; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; LIVER; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; POLAND; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0036691875     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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