Lack of evidence for hepatitis G virus replication in the livers of patients coinfected with hepatitis C and G viruses

Journal of Virology

Volumn 71, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 7804-7806

  Laskus, Tomasz ^a   Radkowski, Marek ^a   Wang, Lian F U ^a   Vargas, Hugo ^a   Rakela, Jorge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS G VIRUS; HEPATITIS VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SUPERINFECTION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS HEPATITIS; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS TITRATION;

EID: 0030775633     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.71.10.7804-7806.1997     Document Type: Article

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