Article
At least three hepatitis C virus strains implicated in Swedish and Danish patients with intravenous immunoglobulin-associated hepatitis C.
Transfusion - 1 Mar 1997
Widell A, Zhang Y Y, Andersson-Gäre B, Hammarström L
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Three reported Swedish cases of hepatitis C in patients receiving an intravenous immunoglobulin (Gammagard, Baxter Healthcare, Deerfield, IL) were among the first to bring to light a worldwide outbreak of hepatitis C associated with non-solvent/detergent (SD)-treated Gammagard. In Feb...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Aged
- Child
- Denmark
- Female
- Genotype
- Hepacivirus
- Hepatitis C
- Humans
- Immunoglobulins, Intravenous
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Molecular Sequence Data
- RNA, Viral
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Sweden
- Viral Core Proteins