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Holiday haemodialysis and imported hepatitis C virus infection: a series of sixteen cases in two large haemodialysis units.
Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology - 1 Aug 2009
Bhattacharya Sanjay, Price Nicola, Boxall Elizabeth, Adu Dwomoa, Lipkin Graham, Smith Steve, Osman Husam
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BACKGROUND: Patients in haemodialysis units are at an increased risk of blood borne virus infections. Birmingham city (West Midlands, UK) has a large number of its population from an ethnic origin other than white (30%). Recently due to the increase in number of haemodialysis centres abroad and particularly in the Indian Subcontinent, a large number of haemodialysis patients from these ethnic minorities are...
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