Dried blood spot self-sampling at home is a feasible technique for hepatitis C RNA detection

Tamara Prinsenberg; Sjoerd Rebers; Anders Boyd; Freke Zuure; Maria Prins; Marc van der Valk; Janke Schinkel

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0231385

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Dried blood spot self-sampling at home is a feasible technique for hepatitis C RNA detection

Tamara Prinsenberg ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: tprinsenberg@ggd.amsterdam.nl

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Research and Prevention, Public Health Service of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Amsterdam Infection and Immunity Institute, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5894-5646

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Sjoerd Rebers,

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Section of Clinical Virology, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Anders Boyd,

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Research and Prevention, Public Health Service of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Freke Zuure,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Research and Prevention, Public Health Service of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Maria Prins,

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Research and Prevention, Public Health Service of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Amsterdam Infection and Immunity Institute, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Marc van der Valk,

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Amsterdam Infection and Immunity Institute, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8290-6425

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Janke Schinkel

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Section of Clinical Virology, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Dried blood spot self-sampling at home is a feasible technique for hepatitis C RNA detection

Tamara Prinsenberg,
Sjoerd Rebers,
Anders Boyd,
Freke Zuure,
Maria Prins,
Marc van der Valk,
Janke Schinkel

Published: April 14, 2020
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0231385

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