Discrimination of hepatitis G virus/GBV-C geographical variants by analysis of the 5' non-coding region

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 78, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1533-1542

  Smith, Donald B ^a   Cuceanu, Narcisa ^a   Davidson, Fiona ^b   Jarvis, Lisa M ^a   Mokili, John L K ^a   Hamid, Saeed ^c   Ludlam, Christopher A ^d   Simmonds, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b Edinburgh S E Scotland Blood T   (United Kingdom)

^c AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

^d ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEPATITIS G VIRUS; HEPATITIS VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS GENOME;

GB VIRUS C/HEPATITIS G VIRUS;

EID: 0030878623     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/0022-1317-78-7-1533     Document Type: Article

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