Anti-hepatitis B core antigen testing with detection and characterization of occult hepatitis B virus by an in-house nucleic acid testing among blood donors in Behrampur, Ganjam, Orissa in southeastern India: implications for transfusion.

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Published in Virol J on August 27, 2010

Authors

Rajesh Panigrahi1, Avik Biswas, Sibnarayan Datta, Arup Banerjee, Partha K Chandra, Pradip K Mahapatra, Bharat Patnaik, Sekhar Chakrabarti, Runu Chakravarty

Author Affiliations

1: ICMR Virus Unit, Kolkata, ID & BG Hospital Campus, and Department of Chemistry, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.

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