Application of dried blood spot in the sero-diagnosis of hepatitis B infection (HBV) in an HBV hyper-endemic nation

Annals of African Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 44-45

  Forbi, Joseph C ^a   Obagu, Joy O ^a   Gyar, Silas D ^a   Pam, Christopher R ^a   Pennap, Grace R ^a   Agwale, Simon M ^a  

^a Virology Research Laboratory   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; PHOSPHATE BUFFERED SALINE;

BLOOD EXAMINATION; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD STORAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRIED BLOOD SPOT; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FILTER; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; LETTER; NIGERIA; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL DENSITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERODIAGNOSIS; SUPERNATANT; VEIN PUNCTURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B ANTIBODIES; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NIGERIA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROLOGIC TESTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952055815     PISSN: 15963519     EISSN: 09755764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/1596-3519.62625     Document Type: Letter

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