Hepatitis C virus in healthy blood donors in Sri Lanka

Asian Journal of Transfusion Science

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 23-25

  Senevirathna, Dammika ^a   Amuduwage, Senani ^a   Weerasingam, Shirani ^a   Jayasinghe, Saroj ^b   Fernandopulle, Neil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO   (Sri Lanka)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Blood donors; genotype; Hepacivirus

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874906216     PISSN: 09736247     EISSN: 19983565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0973-6247.75976     Document Type: Article

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