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Serum hepatitis C virus RNA levels and liver injury in volunteer blood donors.

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1994

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Nobukazu Yuki, Nobuyuki Hayashi, Tetsuro Takehara, Hideki Hagiwara, Naoki Hiramatsu, Masahiro Naito, Y Kawanishi, Kazuhiko Katayama, A Kasahara, Hideyuki Fusamoto
PubMed

Abstract

These findings suggest that chronic hepatitis is frequently caused by hepatitis C virus infection irrespective of the serum aminotransferase levels, and high level hepatitis C virus replication is a contributory cause for liver injury in volunteer blood donor populations.