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Prevalence and characterization of occult hepatitis B infection among blood donors in central Saudi Arabia

Areej I. Alshayea, Gamal E. Eid, Malak M. El-Hazmi and Abdulkarim F. Alhetheel
Saudi Medical Journal October 2016, 37 (10) 1114-1119; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2016.10.14705
Areej I. Alshayea
From the Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences (Alshayea, Eid), College of Applied Medical Sciences, King Khalid University Hospital, and the Department of Pathology (El-Hazmi, Alhetheel), College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Gamal E. Eid
From the Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences (Alshayea, Eid), College of Applied Medical Sciences, King Khalid University Hospital, and the Department of Pathology (El-Hazmi, Alhetheel), College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Malak M. El-Hazmi
From the Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences (Alshayea, Eid), College of Applied Medical Sciences, King Khalid University Hospital, and the Department of Pathology (El-Hazmi, Alhetheel), College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Abdulkarim F. Alhetheel
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vol. 37 no. 10 1114-1119
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2016.10.14705
PubMed 
27652363

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Saudi Medical Journal
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1658-3175
History 
  • Received February 10, 2016
  • Accepted July 20, 2016
  • Published online October 1, 2016.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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  1. Areej I. Alshayea, MSc,
  2. Gamal E. Eid, PhD,
  3. Malak M. El-Hazmi, MD and
  4. Abdulkarim F. Alhetheel, PhD⇑
  1. From the Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences (Alshayea, Eid), College of Applied Medical Sciences, King Khalid University Hospital, and the Department of Pathology (El-Hazmi, Alhetheel), College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Abdulkarim Alhetheel, Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: abdulkarimfahad{at}hotmail.com
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Areej I. Alshayea, Gamal E. Eid, Malak M. El-Hazmi, Abdulkarim F. Alhetheel
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