Frequency of HCV infection and its genotypes among patients attending a liver clinic and voluntary blood donors in a rural area of Pakistan

Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 579-582

  Abbas, Syed Zafar ^a   Ali, Muhammad ^a   Muhammad, Amtul Husain ^a   Shaw, Steve ^b   Abbas, Syed Qamar ^a,c  

^a Muhammad Medical College & Hospital   (Pakistan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^c St Clare Hospice ^*

Author keywords

Blood donors; Genotype; Hepatitis C; Seroprevalence

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PAKISTAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RURAL AREA; SEROPREVALENCE; TEACHING HOSPITAL; VIRUS DETECTION;

EID: 70349110156     PISSN: 1682024X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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