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A new cluster of hepatitis A infection in hemophiliacs traced to a contaminated plasma pool.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Feb 1999
Chudy M, Budek I, Keller-Stanislawski B, McCaustland K A, Neidhold S, Robertson B H, Nübling C M, Seitz R, Löwer J
Abstract excerpt
Recently, several clusters of hepatitis A have been observed among hemophiliacs linked to factor VIII concentrates treated for virus inactivation solely with the solvent/detergent (S/D) method, a procedure that does not affect nonenveloped viruses such as the hepatitis A virus (HAV). A new outbreak of hepatitis A in six hemophiliacs treated with the same lot of a factor VIII preparation occurred recently in...
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