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Acute hepatitis B in blood donors over a 5-year period in England and North Wales: who is getting infected?
Transfusion - 1 Jun 2014
Rosenberg Gillian K, Lattimore Sam, Brailsford Susan R, Hewitt Patricia E, Tettmar Kate I, Kitchen Alan D, Ijaz Samreen, Tedder Richard S
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BACKGROUND: Hepatitis B virus (HBV) remains the infection most frequently recognized by donation testing in blood donors. It is usually a persistent infection and mostly reflects the country of origin of the donor or the donor's family. There are, however, a minority of acute infections and this study undertook their phylogenetic analysis to determine the likely source of infection. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS:...
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