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Hepatitis C update: Implications of the blood transfusion “lookback”

Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine. 1998 September;65(8):412-415, 418-420, 422
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ABSTRACT

Over the next several years, physicians will be called upon to notify past blood transfusion recipients of blood that may have been contaminated with hepatitis C virus (HCV). This article reviews the screening, care, and follow-up of persons at risk for hepatitis C virus infection from all sources.