Human parvovirus 4 infection in low- and high-risk French individuals

Transfusion

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 744-745

  Servant Delmas, Annabelle ^a   Laperche, Syria ^a   Lionnet, François ^b   Sharp, Colin ^c   Simmonds, Peter ^c   Lefrère, Jean Jacques ^a  

^a INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA TRANSFUSION SANGUINE   (France)

^b HÔPITAL TENON   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; PARVOVIRUS 4 ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FRANCE; HEPATITIS C; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN PARVOVIRUS 4 INFECTION; LETTER; LOW RISK POPULATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIXED INFECTION; PARVOVIRUS INFECTION;

FRANCE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; PARVOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; PARVOVIRUS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES;

EID: 84896055943     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/trf.12512     Document Type: Letter

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