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A nationwide survey for hepatitis E virus prevalence in Japanese blood donors with elevated alanine aminotransferase

✍ Scribed by Hidekatsu Sakata; Keiji Matsubayashi; Hiromi Takeda; Shinichiro Sato; Toshiaki Kato; Satoru Hino; Kenji Tadokoro; Hisami Ikeda

Book ID: 109144277
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 2008
Tongue: English
Weight: 163 KB
Volume: 48
Category: Article
ISSN: 0372-1248
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2008.01910.x

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