Seroprevalence and risk factors for hepatitis C virus infection among blood donors in Serbia: A multicentre study

Digestive and Liver Disease

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 572-576

  Mitrovic, Nikola ^a   Delic, Dragan ^a,b   Markovic Denic, Ljiljana ^b,c   Jovicic, Milica ^d   Popovic, Natasa ^a   Bojovic, Ksenija ^a,b   Simonovic Babic, Jasmina ^a,b   Svirtlih, Neda ^a,b  

^a Clinic for Infectious and Tropical Diseases   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^c Institute of Epidemiology   (Serbia)

^d Blood Transfusion Institute of Serbia   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Blood donors; Hepatitis C; Prevalence; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONDOM USE; DRUG USE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; MALE; MARRIAGE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEROPREVALENCE; SEXUALITY; TATTOOING; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ADOLESCENT; BLOOD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; SERBIA; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BLOOD DONORS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SERBIA; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84937628239     PISSN: 15908658     EISSN: 18783562     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dld.2015.03.019     Document Type: Article

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