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Hepatitis B and C viral infections among blood donors. A retrospective study from a rural community of Ghana

BACKGROUND: Infection by Hepatitis B virus (HBV) and Hepatitis C virus (HCV) cause serious mortality, morbidity and financial burden and are thus a major global health problem. The study was conducted to investigate the prevalence of Hepatitis B and C infections and co-infections among blood donors...

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Autores principales:	Nkrumah, Bernard, Owusu, Michael, Averu, Paul
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2011
Materias:	Short Report
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3259119/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22152159 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-4-529

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