Occult HCV in Egyptian volunteer blood donors
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Prevalence of HCV and HIV/HCV co-infection among volunteer blood donors and VCT clients.
OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of HCV infection and HCV/HIV co-infection among voluntary blood donors at the National Blood Transfusion Centre and clients at the Kenyatta National Hospital HIV-Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) Centre. DESIGN A prospective cross-sectional descriptive study. SETTING Kenyatta National Hospital, a tertiary referral and teaching hospital and the Nati...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2090-7125
DOI: 10.21608/ejhm.2018.16079