Acute hepatitis B virus window-period blood donations detected by individual-donation nucleic acid testing: A report on the first two cases found and interdicted in Spain

Transfusion

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1138-1142

  González, Rocio ^a,b   Echevarria, José Manuel ^a,b   Avellón, Ana ^a,b   Barea, Luisa ^a,b   Castro, Emma ^a,b,c  

^a Spanish Red Cross Blood Transfusion Center ^*  (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^c Centro de Transfusion de Cruz Roja Espanola   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; VIRUS DNA;

ACUTE HEPATITIS; ADULT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPAIN; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS STRAIN;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; BLOOD DONORS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMANS; MALE; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; SPAIN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33746483825     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2006.00863.x     Document Type: Article

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