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Original Article

Prevalence and outcome of post-transfusion hepatitis C acquired at different ages and detected in look-back screening

Charlotta MillbournDepartment of Medicine Huddinge, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; ;Department of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden; Correspondence[email protected]
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Afrodite Psaros EinbergDepartment of Pediatrics, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden; ;CLINTEC Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden;
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Gudrun LindhDepartment of Medicine Huddinge, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden;
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Ingegerd HökebergDepartment of Communicable Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm, Sweden
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Björn FischlerDepartment of Pediatrics, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden; ;CLINTEC Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden;
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Karin LindahlDepartment of Medicine Huddinge, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden;
Pages 870-875 | Received 23 Feb 2018, Accepted 07 May 2018, Published online: 18 Jun 2018

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