Higher Hepatis C virus concentration in platelets than in plasma in a patient with ITP

Platelets

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 413-414

  Onan, Engin ^a   Uskudar, Oguz ^a   Coşkun, Yunus ^a   Akkiz, Hikmet ^a  

^a CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; STEROID;

ADULT; BLOOD SMEAR; CASE REPORT; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; LETTER; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; NONHUMAN; PLASMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOCYTE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; BLOOD; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; VIROLOGY;

BLOOD PLATELETS; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PURPURA, THROMBOCYTOPENIC, IDIOPATHIC;

EID: 84863678296     PISSN: 09537104     EISSN: 13691635     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09537104.2011.625457     Document Type: Letter

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