Hepatitis C Infection in Patients with Primary Hypogammaglobulinemia after Treatment with Contaminated Immune Globulin

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15 December 1994

journal article
research article
Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine

Vol. 331 (24) , 1607-1611
https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199412153312402

Abstract

In Scandinavia many patients with primary hypogammaglobulinemia contracted non-A, non-B hepatitis after intravenous treatment with an immune globulin product that was later found to contain a non-A, non-B hepatitis virus.

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