Hepatitis C virus genotypes in chronic dialysis patients

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 679-683

  Fabrizi, F ^a,b   Lunghi, G ^a   Guarnori, I ^a   Raffaele, L ^a   Erba, G ^a   Pagano, A ^a   Locatelli, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b A MANZONI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dialysis patients; HCV genotyping; NS4 proteins

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DIALYSIS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0029995046     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.ndt.a027359     Document Type: Article

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