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Hepatitis B Negative Blood Donation Is Linked to HBV Transmission

Published in Blood Weekly, October 30th, 1995

A case of acute post-transfusion hepatitis B confirmed a long window period between infection and the appearance of surface antigen.

A definite, residual risk of HBV transmission by blood products exists because a window of infectivity for hepatitis B virus (HBV) prevails, indicated Marie-Helene Elghouzzi, National Foundation for Blood Transfusion, Rungis, France, and colleagues ("Transmission of Hepatitis B Virus by HBV Negative Blood Transfusion," Lancet, October 7, 1995;346:964).

Elghouzzi et al. said that their report is the first case in which, using HBV sequencing, the linkage between HBV strains in both the blood donor and the recipient was...

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