Seroprevalence of anti-hepatitis C virus antibodies among blood donors, Brazil;Soroprevalência de anticorpos antivírus da hepatite C em doadores de sangue, Brasil

Revista de Saude Publica

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 393-399

  Paltanin, Lindamyr Fornazieri ^a   Reiche, Edna Maria Vissoci ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF LONDRINA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Blood donors; Hepatitis antibodies; Hepatitis C, immunology; Seroepidemiological studies

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD DONOR; BRAZIL; CHI SQUARE TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GENDER; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; SEROPREVALENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0036702683     PISSN: 00348910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0034-89102002000400004     Document Type: Article

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