Antibody to Hepatitis C Is Common among Patients with Alcoholic Liver Disease with and without Risk Factors

The American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 86, Issue 9, 1991, Pages 1219-1223

  Caldwell, Stephen H ^a   Jeffers, Lennox J ^a   Ditomaso, Antonio ^a   Millar, Andrew ^a   Clark, Robert M ^a   Rabassa, Alfredo ^a   Reddy, K Rajender ^a   De Medina, Maria ^a   Schiff, Eugene R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL LIVER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER BIOPSY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS ANTIBODIES; HUMAN; LIVER DISEASES, ALCOHOLIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES;

EID: 0025933908     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.1991.tb07257.x     Document Type: Article

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