Hepatitis E: The 'new kid on the block' or an old friend?

Transfusion Medicine and Hemotherapy

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 6-9

  Dalton, Harry R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEPATITIS; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; HEPATITIS E; HUMAN; INFECTION; JAUNDICE; MEDICAL HISTORY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEROPREVALENCE; VASCULARIZATION;

EID: 84924523036     PISSN: 16603796     EISSN: 16603818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000358103     Document Type: Review

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