Hepatitis G virus coinfection in hepatitis C virus-infected liver transplant recipients

Transplantation

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 786-788

  Vargas, Hugo E ^a   Laskus, Tomasz ^a   Radkowski, Marek ^a   Poutous, Anthony ^a   Wang, Lian Fu ^a   Lee, Randall ^a   Dodson, Forest ^a   Gayowski, Timothy ^b   Singh, Nina ^b   Marino, Ignazio R ^b   Fung, John J ^a   Zhang Keck, Zhen Yong ^c   Kim, Jungsuh P ^c   Rakela, Jorge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Genelabs Incorporated   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HEPATITIS VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFECTION RATE; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ADULT; BIOPSY; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT STUDIES; FLAVIVIRIDAE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS, VIRAL, HUMAN; HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0030886801     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199709150-00025     Document Type: Article

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