Multicenter evaluation of the performance characteristics of the bayer VERSANT HCV RNA 3.0 assay (bDNA).

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Published in J Clin Microbiol on February 01, 2004

Authors

Tarek Elbeik1, Johan Surtihadi, Mark Destree, Jed Gorlin, Mark Holodniy, Saeed A Jortani, Ken Kuramoto, Valerie Ng, Roland Valdes, Alexandra Valsamakis, Norah A Terrault

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California, San Francisco 94110, USA. elbeik@itsa.ucsf.edu

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