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The incidence of viremia and the heterogeneity of hepatitis C virus genotypes among blood donors, hemophiliacs and patients with chronic liver disease.
Pathology - 1 Nov 1996
Kuperan P, Aw T C, Ishiko H, Hashimoto O, Takeda N
Abstract excerpt
Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) is the major cause of parentally transmitted non-A, non-B hepatitis. We studied the incidence of HCV Viremia in blood donors, hemophiliacs and patients with chronic liver disease who are positive for antibodies to HCV, and then correlated the HCV genotypes among the three groups. 23 blood donors, 10 hemophiliacs and 97 patients with chronic liver disease were found to be positive for...
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