Frequency, viral loads, and serotype identification of enterovirus infections in Scottish blood donors

Transfusion

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1060-1066

  Welch, Jon ^b   Maclaran, Kate ^b   Jordan, Tony ^b   Simmonds, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; BLOOD COMPONENT THERAPY; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COXSACKIE VIRUS A; COXSACKIE VIRUS A16; ECHO VIRUS; ECHO VIRUS 11; ECHO VIRUS 30; ENTEROVIRUS; ENTEROVIRUS 71; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCREENING; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEROTYPE; SUMMER; UNITED KINGDOM; VIREMIA; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VIRUS TYPING;

BLOOD; BLOOD DONORS; ENTEROVIRUS; ENTEROVIRUS B, HUMAN; ENTEROVIRUS INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MASS SCREENING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCOTLAND; SEASONS; SEROTYPING; VIRAL LOAD; VIREMIA;

EID: 0042931304     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1537-2995.2003.00463.x     Document Type: Article

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