One window-period donation in two years of individual donor-nucleic acid test screening for hepatitis B, hepatitis C and human immunodeficiency virus

Revista Brasileira de Hematologia e Hemoterapia

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 167-170

  Levi, José Eduardo ^a   Pereira, Ricardo Antonio D'Almeida ^a   Polite, Márcia Bernardino de Carvalho ^a   Mota, Mariza Aparecida ^a   Nunez, Silvia Patricia ^a   Pinho, João Renato Rebello ^a   Kutner, José Mauro ^a  

^a HOSPITAL ISRAELITA ALBERT EINSTEIN   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Blood donors; Hepatitis B virus; Hepatitis B diagnosis; Hepatitis C virus; Hepatitis C diagnosis; HIV; Reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881531910     PISSN: 15168484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5581/1516-8484.20130039     Document Type: Article

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