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Prevalence of hepatitis B virus core antibodies among blood donors in Nigeria: Implications for blood safety

BACKGROUND: Anti-hepatitis B core antibody (anti-HBc) testing improves transfusion safety by detecting past and current hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection while detecting hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) in serology-negative HBV infection. However, occult HBV infection (OBI) (serum or liver HBV DN...

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Autores principales: Fasola, Foluke A., Fowotade, Adeola A., Faneye, Adedayo O., Adeleke, Adeyeni
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: AOSIS 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9350478/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35937767
http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/ajlm.v11i1.1434