Hepatitis C virus negative strand RNA is not detected in peripheral blood mononuclear cells and viral sequences are identical to those in serum: A case against extrahepatic replication

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 78, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 2747-2750

  Laskus, Tomasz ^a   Radkowski, Marek ^b   Wang, Lian Fu ^a   Cianciara, Janusz ^b,c   Vargas, Hugo ^a   Rakela, Jorge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Institute for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases   (Poland)

^c SP ZOZ Wojewodzki Szpital Zakazny Centrum Diagnostyki i Terapii AIDS Warszawa   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; VIRUS ADSORPTION; VIRUS REPLICATION;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

EID: 0030700022     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/0022-1317-78-11-2747     Document Type: Article

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