Genotyping of hepatitis C virus isolates from Lebanese hemodialysis patients by reverse transcription-PCR and restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of 5' noncoding region

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 2623-2624

  Matar, Ghassan M ^a   Sharara, Hanady M ^a   Abdelnour, George E ^a   Abdelnoor, Alex M ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENOTYPE; HEMODIALYSIS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HEPATITIS NON A NON B; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LEBANON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; VIRUS ISOLATION;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS; NON-A, NON-B HEPATITIS VIRUS;

EID: 0029821107     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.34.10.2623-2624.1996     Document Type: Article

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