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ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Indeterminate third-generation hepatitis C recombinant immunoblot assay and HCV RNA analysis: Isolated reactivity against NS5 associated with HCV viraemia in clinical patients but not blood donors

Stefania Cavazza Department of Clinical Virology, Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden; Department of Internal Medicine, S. Orsola-Malpighi University Hospital, Bologna, Italy
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Martin Lagging Department of Clinical Virology, Göteborg University, Göteborg, SwedenCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 488-492 | Received 02 Dec 2004, Published online: 08 Jul 2009

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