Journal of Hepatology
Volume 49, Issue 4 , Pages 537-547 , October 2008

Characterization of occult hepatitis B virus from blood donors carrying genotype A2 or genotype D strains

  • Daniel Candotti

      Affiliations

    • National Health Service Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Blood Centre, Cambridge, United Kingdom
    • ,
  • Piotr Grabarczyk

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Haematology and Transfusion Medicine, Warsaw, Poland
    • ,
  • Paola Ghiazza

      Affiliations

    • Struttura di Qualificazione Biologica del Sangue, Ospedale Sant’ Anna, Torino, Italy
    • ,
  • Roberto Roig

      Affiliations

    • Centro Transfusion Comunidad Valencia, Valencia, Spain
    • ,
  • Natalia Casamitjana

      Affiliations

    • Centre de Transfusió i Banc de Teixits, Barcelona, Spain
    • ,
  • Paola Iudicone

      Affiliations

    • Azienda Ospedaleria S Camillo-Forlanini, Rome, Italy
    • ,
  • Michael Schmidt

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Transfusion Medicine and Immunohematology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
    • ,
  • Arthur Bird

      Affiliations

    • Western Province Blood Transfusion Service, Cape Town, South Africa
    • ,
  • Robert Crookes

      Affiliations

    • South African National Blood Service, Johannesburg, South Africa
    • ,
  • Ewa Brojer

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Haematology and Transfusion Medicine, Warsaw, Poland
    • ,
  • Michelina Miceli

      Affiliations

    • Azienda Ospedaleria S Camillo-Forlanini, Rome, Italy
    • ,
  • Azin Amiri

      Affiliations

    • Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Blood Centre, Long Road, Cambridge CB2 2PT, United Kingdom
    • ,
  • Chengyao Li

      Affiliations

    • National Health Service Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Blood Centre, Cambridge, United Kingdom
    • Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China
    • ,
  • Jean-Pierre Allain

      Affiliations

    • Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Blood Centre, Long Road, Cambridge CB2 2PT, United Kingdom
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +44 1223 548044; fax: +44 1223 548155.

Received 6 February 2008 ,Revised 8 April 2008 ,Accepted 19 April 2008.

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☆ None of the co-authors has any conflict of interest to declare concerning the material presented in this manuscript. Dr. Allain is an occasional lecturer for the Chiron/Novartis Corporation.

PII: S0168-8278(08)00346-2

doi: 10.1016/j.jhep.2008.04.017

Journal of Hepatology
Volume 49, Issue 4 , Pages 537-547 , October 2008

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