Acute hepatitis caused by sexual or household transmission of GBV-C

Journal of Hepatology

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1110-1112

  Tanaka, Takeshi ^a   Takeuchi, Tomoko ^b   Inoue, Kazuaki ^b,c   Tanaka, Satoshi ^a   Kohara, Michinori ^b  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN KOMAGOME HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c SHOWA UNIVERSITY FUJIGAOKA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute hepatitis; GBV C; Genome sequence; Sexual or household transmission

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; VIRUS RNA;

ACUTE HEPATITIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HEPATITIS G VIRUS; HEPATITIS VIRUS; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; SPOUSE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0030781111     PISSN: 01688278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-8278(97)80156-0     Document Type: Article

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