Hepatitis C virus types 7, 8 and 9 should be classified as type 6 subtypes

Journal of Hepatology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 622-624

  Mizokami, Masashi ^a   Gojobori, Takashi ^b   Ohba, Ken Ichi ^a   Ikeo, Kazuho ^b   Ge, Xian Ming ^a   Ohno, Tomoyoshi ^a   Orito, Etsuro ^a   Lau, Johnson Y N ^c,d  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Genotype; Hepatitis C virus, type; Molecular evolutionary analysis; Subtype

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS TYPING;

EID: 0030007595     PISSN: 01688278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-8278(96)80149-8     Document Type: Article

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