Association between fulminant hepatic failure and a strain of GBV virus C

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Volumn 348, Issue 9042, 1996, Pages 1626-1629

  Heringlake, Stefan ^a,b   Osterkamp, Sabine ^a,b   Trautwein, Christian ^a   Tillmann, Hans L ^a   Böker, Klaus ^a   Muerhoff, Scott ^c   Mushahwar, Isah K ^c   Hunsmann, Gerhard ^b   Manns, Michael P ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^c ABBOTT LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HEPATITIS G VIRUS; HEPATITIS VIRUS; HUMAN; LIVER FAILURE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS STRAIN;

EID: 0030583831     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(96)04413-3     Document Type: Article

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