Virology, serology, and demography of hepatitis e viremic blood donors in South East England

Transfusion

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1529-1536

  Tedder, Richard S ^a,b,c   Tettmar, Kate I ^a,b   Brailsford, Su R ^a,d   Said, Bengu ^b   Ushiro Lumb, Ines ^a,b   Kitchen, Alan ^a   Morgan, Dilys ^b   Lattimore, Sam ^d   Tossell, Joanne ^a   Ijaz, Samreen ^b   Hewitt, Patricia E ^a  

^a NHS BLOOD AND TRANSPLANT   (United Kingdom)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d Hepatitis and Blood Safety ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; CHICKEN MEAT; CLINICAL FEATURE; ENGLAND; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD PREFERENCE; HEPATITIS E; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PORK; PROCESSED MEAT; REINFECTION; SCREENING; SEROCONVERSION; TRAVEL; UNITED KINGDOM; VIRAL CLEARANCE; VIREMIA; VIRUS LOAD; ANIMAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETICS; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; IMMUNOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; VIROLOGY;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BLOOD DONORS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC FACTORS; FEMALE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYLOGENY; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED KINGDOM; VIRAL LOAD; VIREMIA;

EID: 84959054741     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/trf.13498     Document Type: Article

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