Past and present of hepatitis e in the Netherlands

Transfusion

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 3092-3096

  Hogema, Boris M ^a,b   Molier, Michel ^a,b   Slot, Ed ^a,b   Zaaijer, Hans L ^a,b  

^a CENTRAL LABORATORY   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS E ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; GROUPS BY AGE; HEPATITIS E; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NETHERLANDS; PREVALENCE; SEROPREVALENCE; ADOLESCENT; AGE; AGED; BLOOD; DONOR SELECTION; FEMALE; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRANSMISSION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; DONOR SELECTION; FEMALE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RNA, VIRAL;

EID: 84916934547     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/trf.12733     Document Type: Article

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