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Prevalence, incidence and residual risk of transfusion-transmitted hepatitis B virus infection in Italy from 2009 to 2018.

DOI

29

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20

References

2019

Year

Claudio Velati, Luisa Romanò, Ilaria Pati, Giuseppe Marano, Vanessa Piccinini, Liviana Catalano, Simonetta Pupella, Stefania Vaglio, Eva Veropalumbo, Francesca Masiello,
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Abstract

In Italy, the residual risk of transfusing a blood unit infected with HBV, both from window phase and occult infections, is currently very low, amounting to levels that can be considered tolerable.

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