Analysis of mother-to-infant transmission of hepatitis C virus: Quasispecies nature and buoyant densities of maternal virus populations

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 225-230

  Kudo, Toyoichiro ^a,b   Yanase, Youichiro ^b   Ohshiro, Makoto ^b   Yamamoto, Mitsuaki ^b   Morita, Makoto ^b   Shibata, Motohiro ^b   Morishima, Tsuneo ^b  

^a Meijo Hospital   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

differential flotation centrifugation; flaviviridae; sequencing of viral RNA; vertical transmission

Indexed keywords

MATERNAL ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; INFANT; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; RNA SEQUENCE; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CESAREAN SECTION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODIES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TIME FACTORS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

FLAVIVIRIDAE; HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

EID: 0030916108     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9071(199703)51:3<225::AID-JMV14>3.0.CO;2-J     Document Type: Article

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