Hepatitis B viral DNA among HBs antigen negative healthy blood donors

Hepatitis Monthly

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Vaezjalali, Maryam ^a,b   Rashidpour, Shabnam ^b   Rezaee, Hanieh ^b   Hajibeigi, Bashir ^c   Zeidi, Majid ^c   Gachkar, Latif ^a   Aghamohamad, Shadi ^b   Najafi, Ronak ^b   Goudarzi, Hossein ^a,b  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

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

Author keywords

Blood Donors; Hepatitis B Surface Antigens; Hepatitis B virus; Polymerase Chain Reaction

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; HEPATITIS B CORE ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; VIRUS DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCULT HEPATITIS B INFECTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROLOGY;

EID: 84875883862     PISSN: 1735143X     EISSN: 17353408     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5812/hepatmon.6590     Document Type: Article

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