Hepatitis C virus detection by single-round PCR specific for the terminal 3' noncoding region

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 2552-2558

  Umlauft, Florian ^a   Wong, David T ^a   Oefner, Peter J ^a   Underhill, Peter A ^a   Cheung, Ramsey C ^a   Wright, Teresa L ^b   Kolykhalov, Alexander A ^c   Gruenewald, Kurt ^d   Greenberg, Harry B ^a,e  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS HEPATITIS;

DNA VIRUSES; HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

EID: 0029794730     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.34.10.2552-2558.1996     Document Type: Article

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