Low Frequency of Occult Hepatitis B Infection in Anti-HBc Seropositive Blood Donors: Experience from a Tertiary Care Centre in South India

Overview

Journal Blood Transfus

Specialty Hematology

Date 2011 Dec 14

PMID 22153686

Citations 9

Authors

Ashrafali M Ismail

Seetha Devakumar

Raghavendran Anantharam

Gnanadurai J Fletcher

Thenmozhi Subramani

George T John

Dolly Daniel

Priya Abraham

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