Transfusion Medicine Reviews
Volume 23, Issue 2 , Pages 146-154 , April 2009

Rapid and Accurate In Vitro Assays for Detection of West Nile Virus in Blood and Tissues

  • Wandong Zhang

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    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to Wandong Zhang, 1200 Montreal Road, M54, Ottawa, Canada K1A 0R6.
    • These authors contributed equally to this work.
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  • Jun Wu

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    • These authors contributed equally to this work.
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  • Yan Li
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  • Fengshan Li
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  • Howard Njoo

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doi: 10.1016/j.tmrv.2008.12.008

Transfusion Medicine Reviews
Volume 23, Issue 2 , Pages 146-154 , April 2009

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