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Published on: June 26, 2014

Hepatitis C virus transmission by a blood donation negative in nucleic acid amplification tests for viral RNA

C G Schüttler, G Caspari, C A Jursch

    Lancet (London, England)
    |January 1, 2000
    PubMed

    Hepatitis C virus (HCV) was transmitted by transfusion of a platelet concentrate made from an anti-HCV and HCV-PCR-negative blood donation. Even a negative nucleic acid amplification test cannot completely prevent transmission of HCV.

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