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Occurrence of hepatitis A virus genotype III in Germany requires the adaptation of commercially available diagnostic test systems.
Transfusion - 1 Jul 2005
Heitmann Alke, Laue Thomas, Schottstedt Volkmar, Dotzauer Andreas, Pichl Lutz
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BACKGROUND: A blood donation, obtained in 2003 in Germany during the preseroconversion diagnostic window period of a hepatitis A virus (HAV) infection, tested HAV-negative by commercially available HAV reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) detection assays. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS: The virus responsible for this infection was identified as HAV genotype IIIA by characterization of the nearly...
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