Anti-hepatitis B core antigen testing with detection and characterization of occult hepatitis B virus by an in-house nucleic acid testing among blood donors in Behrampur, Ganjam, Orissa in southeastern India: Implications for transfusion

Virology Journal

Volumn 7, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Panigrahi, Rajesh ^d   Biswas, Avik ^d   Datta, Sibnarayan ^a,d   Banerjee, Arup ^b,d   Chandra, Partha K ^c,d   Mahapatra, Pradip K ^g   Patnaik, Bharat ^f   Chakrabarti, Sekhar ^d,e   Chakravarty, Runu ^d  

^a Defence R D Organization   (India)

^b SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (India)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHOLERA AND ENTERIC DISEASES   (India)

^f MKCG MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^g JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B CORE ANTIGEN; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; NUCLEIC ACID; HEPATITIS B ANTIBODY; VIRUS DNA;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; MALE; OCCULT BLOOD TEST; PHYLOGENY; VIREMIA; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ADULT; BLOOD; BLOOD DONOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; INDIA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; PREVALENCE; VIROLOGY;

HEPATITIS B VIRUS;

ADULT; BLOOD DONORS; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B ANTIBODIES; HEPATITIS B CORE ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MASS SCREENING; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; PREVALENCE; VIROLOGY;

EID: 77955964181     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1743422X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1743-422X-7-204     Document Type: Article

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