Hepatitis C virus transmission by a blood donation negative in nucleic acid amplification tests for viral RNA

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Volumn 355, Issue 9197, 2000, Pages 41-42

  Schüttler, Christian G ^a   Caspari, Gregor ^a   Jursch, Christian A ^a   Willems, Wulf R ^a   Gerlich, Wolfram H ^a   Schaefer, Stephan ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS C ANTIBODY; NUCLEIC ACID; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; CASE REPORT; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROCONVERSION; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 2542509648     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(99)04719-4     Document Type: Article

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