HCV core antigen as an alternative to NAT to detect HCV viremia [2]

Transfusion

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 307-308

  Raker, Christina A ^a   Tabor, Edward ^b   Okayama, Akihiko ^c   Yu, Mei Ying W ^b   Kohara, Michinori ^d   Mueller, Nancy E ^a   Tsubouchi, Hirohito ^c   Stuver, Sherri O ^e  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR BIOLOGICS EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

^d TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^e BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTROIMMUNOASSAY; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIREMIA; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 1242277279     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2004.00649.x     Document Type: Letter

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