Article
[Prevalence of types of hepatitis C virus in Spanish blood donors: results of a state-based multicenter study. Spanish Group for the Study of Blood Donors with Risk of HCV Transmission].
Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica - 1 Nov 1999
León P, López J A, Amela C, Elola C, Echevarría J M
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The prevalences established up to the present in Spain for the different types of hepatitis C virus are based on data obtained in populations in which the nature of the population itself may have based the data in favor of certain types of the virus. The study of seropositive blood donors identified through screening of blood donations may provide prevalences closer to the truth among the general...
Topics
- Blood Donors
- Genotype
- Hepacivirus
- Hepatitis C
- Hepatitis C Antibodies
- Humans
- Prevalence
- Risk Factors
- Spain
