The natural course of chronic hepatitis C: A comparison between patients with genotypes 1 and 2 hepatitis C viruses

Hepatology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 695-699

  Kobayashi, Masanori ^a   Tanaka, Eiji ^a   Sodeyama, Takeshi ^a   Urushihara, Akihiko ^a   Matsumoto, Akihiro ^a   Kiyosawa, Kendo ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; DISEASE COURSE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER BIOPSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; VIRUS HEPATITIS; VIRUS PATHOGENESIS;

EID: 0029925871     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/jhep.1996.v23.pm0008666319     Document Type: Article

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