Hepatitis e screening for blood donations: An urgent need?

The Lancet

Volumn 384, Issue 9956, 2014, Pages 1729-1730

  Pawlotsky, Jean Michel ^a,b  

^a HENRI MONDOR HOSPITAL   (France)

^b INSERM U955   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; ANTIGEN P24; DRINKING WATER; FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; VIRUS RNA;

ACUTE HEPATITIS; ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; APLASTIC ANEMIA; BLOOD COMPONENT; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; ERYTHROCYTE; GRANULOCYTE; HEPATITIS; HEPATITIS E; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY INJURY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PANCREATITIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCREENING; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VIRUS GENOME; BLOOD COMPONENT THERAPY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; GENETICS; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRANSMISSION;

BLOOD COMPONENT TRANSFUSION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; FEMALE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84911426070     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61187-9     Document Type: Note

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