One window-period donation in two years of individual donor-nucleic acid test screening for hepatitis B, hepatitis C and human immunodeficiency virus

Objective: To describe general data on nucleic acid/serology testing and report the first hepatitis B-nucleic acid testing yield case of an immunized donor in Brazil. Methods: A total of 24,441 donations coll...

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Main Authors: Jose Eduardo Levi, Ricardo Antonio D'Almeida Pereira, Marcia Bernardino de Carvalho Polite, Mariza Aparecida Mota, Silvia Patricia Nunez, Joao Renato Rebello Pinho, Jose Mauro Kutner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2013-06-01
Series:Revista Brasileira de Hematologia e Hemoterapia
Subjects:
HIV
Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-84842013000300167&lng=en&tlng=en