Sequence variation within a nonstructural region of the hepatitis G virus genome

Journal of Virology

Volumn 71, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 6875-6880

  Khudyakov, Yury E ^a,d   Cong, Mian E R ^a,b   Bonafonte, Maria Teresa ^a   Abdulmalek, Sulaiman ^a,c   Nichols, Barbara L ^a   Lambert, Stephen ^a   Alter, Miriam J ^a   Fields, Howard A ^a  

^a NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^c Specialty Laboratories   (United States)

^d CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HEPATITIS G VIRUS; HEPATITIS NON A NON B; HEPATITIS VIRUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERUM; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENOME;

EID: 0030878963     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.71.9.6875-6880.1997     Document Type: Article

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