Tracking hepatitis C virus quasispecies major and minor variants in symptomatic and asymptomatic liver transplant recipients

Journal of Virology

Volumn 70, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 7622-7631

  Gretch, David R ^a,b   Polyak, Stephen J ^a   Wilson, Jeffrey J ^a   Carithers Jr , Robert L ^a   Perkins, James D ^a   Corey, Lawrence ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENVELOPE GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RECURRENT INFECTION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 0029842879     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.70.11.7622-7631.1996     Document Type: Article

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