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Transmission of hepatitis C virus in allografted patients: use of viral genotyping as an epidemiological marker.
Bone marrow transplantation - 1 Dec 1996
Gangneux J P, Traineau R, Tuveri R, Ravera N, Bureau C, Gluckman E, Benbunan M, Loiseau P
Abstract excerpt
One hundred and ninety-two allografted patients were tested for hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA from 1992 to 1995 in Saint-Louis Hospital (Paris). They received blood products and intravenous immunoglobulins (IVIG) and more particularly Gammagard IVIG suspected of transmitting HCV (batches distributed in France between January 1993 and February 1994). The presence of serum HCV RNA was tested by polymerase chain...
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