Occurrence of false positives during testing for antibodies to hepatitis C virus among volunteer blood donors in India

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1788-1790

  Raghuraman, Sukanya ^a   Subramaniam, Thenmozhi ^a   Daniel, Dolly ^a   Sridharan, Gopalan ^a   Abraham, Priya ^a  

^a CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS C ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INDIA; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROPARTICLE ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS HEPATITIS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

BLOOD DONORS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 0037388848     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.4.1788-1790.2003     Document Type: Article

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