Comparative analysis of three nucleic acid-based detection systems for hepatitis C virus RNA in plasma from liver transplant recipients

Molecular and Cellular Probes

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 331-336

  Chen, Yiping ^a   Cooper, David L ^a   Ehrlich, Garth D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Assay comparison; Hepatitis C virus; Liver transplantation; Molecular diagnostics; Polymerase chain reaction; Signal amplification

Indexed keywords

ANTIVIRUS AGENT; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA HYBRIDIZATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; VIREMIA;

CHIRON; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; PAN TROGLODYTES;

EID: 0030272679     PISSN: 08908508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mcpr.1996.0045     Document Type: Article

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