Sequence analysis confirmation of transfusion-transmitted hepatitis C by red blood cells that tested negative by minipool hepatitis C virus nucleic acid testing [5]

Transfusion

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1102-1104

  Grabarczyk, Piotr ^a   Gronowska, Agnieszka ^a   Brojer, Ewa ^a   Letowska, Magdalena ^a   Radziwon, Piotr ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF HEMATOLOGY AND TRANSFUSION MEDICINE   (Poland)

^b Regional Blood Transfusion Center   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC KIT; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LETTER; NUCLEIC ACID TEST; PLASMA; RECIPIENT; RNA SEQUENCE; SCREENING TEST; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROCONVERSION; VIREMIA; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ACUTE DISEASE; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOOD DONORS; DONOR SELECTION; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; ERYTHROCYTES; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 34249054907     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2007.01263.x     Document Type: Letter

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