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Molecular epidemiology of an outbreak of infection with hepatitis C virus in recipients of anti-D immunoglobulin.
Lancet (London, England) - 13 May 1995
Power J P, Lawlor E, Davidson F, Holmes E C, Yap P L, Simmonds P
Abstract excerpt
In a retrospective investigation of possible transmission of hepatitis C virus (HCV) by anti-rhesus D immunoglobulin (anti-D) in 1977, we compared variants infecting anti-D recipients in Ireland of one of the implicated batches with those of epidemiologically unrelated HCV-infected individuals. All 100 of the recipients of the batch investigated to date were infected with a single genotype (type 1), consistent...
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