Prevalence, incidence and residual risk of transfusion-transmitted HBV infection before and after the implementation of HBV-NAT in northern Brazil.

Prevalence, incidence and residual risk of transfusion-transmitted HBV infection before and after the implementation of HBV-NAT in northern Brazil.

BACKGROUND:Nucleic acid testing (NAT) for virus detection during blood screening has helped to prevent transfusion-transmitted infections worldwide. In northern Brazil, NAT was implemented in 2012 for HIV and HCV and more recently, in January 2015, the screening for HBV was included and currently us...

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Main Authors: Angelita Silva de Miranda Corrêa, Letícia Martins Lamarão, Priscilla Cristina Moura Vieira, Renata Bezerra Hermes de Castro, Núbia Caroline Costa de Almeida, Jairo Augusto Américo de Castro, Maria Salete Maciel de Lima, Mauricio Koury Palmeira, Ana Luiza Langanke Pedroso Meireles, Rommel Rodríguez Burbano
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0208414

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