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A Protocol for Analyzing Hepatitis C Virus Replication
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Hepatitis C virus antibody positive blood donors
D Mutimer1, J Shaw, R Harrison
1Liver and Hepatobiliary Unit, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, UK.
Gut
|January 1, 1993
Abstract:
In an analysis of 15 blood donors referred from the Blood Transfusion Service to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, more than 50% of anti-hepatitis C virus (HCV) positive patients had a parenteral risk factor. Most were serum HCV-RNA positive, and all were liver HCV-RNA positive. Although no physical signs of liver disease were apparent, all anti-HCV positive donors had abnormal liver histology.
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