Mother-to-child transmission of a hepatitis C virus variant with an insertional mutation in its hypervariable region

Journal of Hepatology

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 608-613

  Aizaki, Hideki ^a,b   Saito, Akihiko ^c   Kusakawa, Isao ^c   Ashiwara, Yoshihisa ^d   Nagamori, Seishi ^b   Toda, Gotaro ^b   Suzuki, Tetsuro ^a   Ishii, Koji ^a   Matsuura, Yoshiharu ^a   Miyamura, Tatsuo ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c ST LUKE'S INTERNATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d LSI MEDIENCE CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anti HCV antibody; Hepatitis C virus; Hypervariable region; Insertion; Milk; Mother to child transmission; Virus population

Indexed keywords

RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; MOTHER; MUTATION; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS HEPATITIS;

EID: 0030297386     PISSN: 01688278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-8278(96)80227-3     Document Type: Article

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