Detection of the hepatitis G virus genome among injecting drug users, homosexual and bisexual men, and blood donors

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 174, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1320-1323

  Stark, Klaus ^a   Bienzle, Ulrich ^b   Hess, Georg ^b   Engel, Alfred M ^b   Hegenscheid, Barbel ^b   Schlüter, Volker ^b  

^a Institute of Tropical Medicine   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BISEXUALITY; BLOOD DONOR; DRUG ABUSE; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HEPATITIS G VIRUS; HEPATITIS VIRUS; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; VIREMIA; VIRUS GENOME;

EID: 0029834815     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/174.6.1320     Document Type: Article

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