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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · J Lab Physicians 2017; 9(04): 345
DOI: 10.4103/JLP.JLP_99_17
Letter to the Editor

Utility of hepatitis C virus RNA as the screening test for diagnosing hepatitis C virus infection in hemodialysis patients

Mahajan Supriya
Department of Clinical Virology, Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, New Delhi, India
,
Suman Lata Nayak
Department of Nephrology, Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, New Delhi, India
,
Ekta Gupta
Department of Clinical Virology, Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, New Delhi, India
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