Diverse patterns of recognition of hepatitis C virus core and nonstructural antigens by antibodies present in Egyptian cancer patients and blood donors

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 2665-2669

  Attia, Mohammed A M ^a   Zekri, Abdel Rahman N ^a   Goudsmit, Jaap ^a,b   Boom, René ^a   Khaled, Hussein M ^b   Mansour, Mohammed T ^a   De Wolf, Frank ^a   Alam El Din, Hanaa M ^a   Sol, Cees J A ^a  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS C ANTIBODY; VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; CANCER PATIENT; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HEPATITIS NON A NON B; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS CORE; VIRUS GENE;

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

EID: 0029908710     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.34.11.2665-2669.1996     Document Type: Article

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