Changes in hepatitis C virus quasispecies and density populations in patients before and after interferon therapy

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 214-220

  Nagasaka, Atsushi ^a   Hige, Shuhei ^a   Tsunematsu, Izumi ^a   Yoshida, Junichi ^a   Sasaki, Yuri ^a   Matsushima, Takashi ^b   Asaka, Masahiro ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Hakodate Municipal Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Differential flotation centrifugation; HCV; Polymorphism; Single strand conformation

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; INTERFERON;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION DENSITY;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; INTERFERONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; RNA, VIRAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIRAL ENVELOPE PROTEINS;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

EID: 0029824893     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9071(199611)50:3<214::AID-JMV2>3.0.CO;2-C     Document Type: Article

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