Anti-hepatitis B core antigen testing with detection and characterization of occult hepatitis B virus by an in-house nucleic acid testing among blood donors in Behrampur, Ganjam, Orissa in southeastern India: implications for transfusion

BACKGROUND: Occult hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection might transmit viremic units into the public blood supply if only hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) testing is used for donor screening. Our aim was to evaluate the prevalence of occult HBV infection among the HBsAg negative/antiHBc positive don...

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Autores principales: Panigrahi, Rajesh, Biswas, Avik, Datta, Sibnarayan, Banerjee, Arup, Chandra, Partha K, Mahapatra, Pradip K, Patnaik, Bharat, Chakrabarti, Sekhar, Chakravarty, Runu
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2942823/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20799931
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1743-422X-7-204

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