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[Discovery of a chronic HVC infection without seroconversion in a blood donor in France during 28 months].
Transfusion clinique et biologique : journal de la Societe francaise de transfusion sanguine - 1 Jun 2000
Durand F, Danic B, Tardivel R, Semana G, Gouezec H, Martinot M, Marcellin P, Beauplet A
Abstract excerpt
The HCV-RNA screening technique developed by the French Fractionation and Biotechnology Laboratory singled out in March 1998 a case of positive HCV-RNA viremia in a blood donor without any anti-HCV antibody. That donor was a 46-year-old woman who had made 54 donations of blood products from 1988 to 1997. She had no history of blood transfusion, no history of hepatitis and no life-style risk factor. Clinical...
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