Hepatitis B viral DNA among HBs antigen negative healthy blood donors.

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Published in Hepat Mon on March 17, 2013

Authors

Maryam Vaezjalali1, Shabnam Rashidpour, Hanieh Rezaee, Bashir Hajibeigi, Majid Zeidi, Latif Gachkar, Shadi Aghamohamad, Ronak Najafi, Hossein Goudarzi

Author Affiliations

1: Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran ; Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran.

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