Study of Hepatitis B Prevalence in Parallel With the Most Frequent HBVGenotype in South Iranian Blood Donors

Journal of Clinical Laboratory Analysis

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 407-411

  Karimabad, Mojgan Noroozi ^a,b   Hassanshahi, Gholamhossein ^a   Gharebaghiyan, Ahmad ^b   Sharifi, Zohre ^b  

^a RAFSANJAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b HIGH INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN TRANSFUSION MEDICINE   (Iran)

Author keywords

Blood donor; Genotype; HBV; Iran

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; VIRUS DNA;

ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; IRAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL GENE;

BLOOD DONORS; DNA, VIRAL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMANS; IRAN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE;

HEPATITIS B VIRUS;

EID: 84869023745     PISSN: 08878013     EISSN: 10982825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcla.21534     Document Type: Article

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