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Occult hepatitis B virus infection among Egyptian blood donors
Zeinab N Said, Enas K Aboel-Magd, Microbiology and Immunology Department, Faculty of Medicine (for Girls), Al-Azhar University, 11511 Cairo, Egypt
Manal H El Sayed, Pediatric Department, Hematology/Oncology Division, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, 11511 Cairo, Egypt
Iman I Salama, Community Medicine Department, National Research Center, 12411 Giza, Egypt
Magda H Mahmoud, Ain-Shams Maternity and Women’s University Hospital, 11511 Cairo, Egypt
Maged El Setouhy, Community, Enviromental and Occupational Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, 11511 Cairo, Egypt
Faten Mouftah, Manal B Azzab, Heidi Goubran, National Blood Transfusion Center, 11511 Cairo, Egypt
Amal Bassili, TB Surveillance officer, STB/WHO/EMRO. Focal point, Tropical Disease Research, 11511 Cairo, Egypt
Gamal E Esmat, Tropical Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine-Cairo University, 11511 Cairo, Egypt
Author contributions: Said ZN, El Sayed MH, Salama II, El Setouhy M, Mouftah F, Bassili A and Esmat GE contributed to generating the ideas and research design for this work; Said ZN, El Sayed MH, Salama II, Basili A and Esmat GE contributed to the supportive work and supervision; Mahmoud MH and Goubran H recruited patients and collected samples; Azzab MB performed the chemical laboratory work; Said ZN and Aboel-Magd EK performed the serology and Said ZN performed the molecular biology work, contributed towards the conception of the work and wrote the paper; Salama II statistically analyzed the data and El Sayed MH and Salama II revised the paper. All authors give final approval of the version to be published.
Correspondence to: Zeinab N Said, Professor, Microbiology and Immunology Department, Faculty of Medicine (for girls), Al-Azhar University, Nasr City, 8 Ossama Ibn Monkez Street, Heliopolis, 11511 Cairo, Egypt. znabil58@yahoo.com
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Received: July 1, 2012
Revised: November 28, 2012
Accepted: December 23, 2012
Published online: February 27, 2013
Revised: November 28, 2012
Accepted: December 23, 2012
Published online: February 27, 2013
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