Hepatitis C genotypes in Finland determined by RFLP

Clinical and Diagnostic Virology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 7-16

  Pohjanpelto, Pirkko ^a   Lappalainen, Maija ^a   Widell, Anders ^b   Asikainen, Kari ^a   Paunio, Mikko ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Genotyping PCR; Hepatitis C virus; RFLP

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FINLAND; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

ADULT; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; FINLAND; GENOTYPE; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PHAGE 3A;

EID: 0029902294     PISSN: 09280197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0928-0197(96)00242-5     Document Type: Article

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