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Hepatitis C virus (HCV) Infection Rate among Seronegative Hemodialysis Patients Screened by Two Methods; HCV Core Antigen and Polymerase Chain Reaction

BACKGROUND: End-stage renal disease patients on chronic hemodialysis are among high risk groups for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection for whom routine HCV screening is recommended. Anti-HCV antibody (ab) testing may not be reliable to detect all infected cases because of the blunted ab response due...

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Autores principales: Moini, Maryam, Ziyaeyan, Mazyar, Aghaei, Shapoor, Sagheb, Mohammad Mahdi, Taghavi, Seyed Alireza, Moeini, Mahsa, Jamalidoust, Marzieh, Hamidpour, Laleh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Kowsar 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3768235/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24032048
http://dx.doi.org/10.5812/hepatmon.9147