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Kathryn Jack

Research Fellow and Advanced Virology Nurse Specialist, Nottingham Digestive Diseases Centre, Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham

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An opt-out approach to hepatitis C virus testing in English prisons: the literature underpinning the policy

‘PHE is advocating the development of an “opt out” testing programme in prisons, whereby prisoners are offered the chance to test for infection near reception and at several time points thereafter...

Using dried blood spot testing for diagnosing viral hepatitis

A DBS sample is obtained by a finger-tip skin puncture using a lancet, then collecting capillary blood onto a filter paper test (see Figure 1). This technique was developed by Ivar Christian Bang in...

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