Hepatitis g virus in patients with cryptogenic liver disease undergoing liver transplantation

Hepatology

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1266-1270

  Pessoa, Mario G ^a,b   Terrault, Norah A ^a,b   Ferrell, Linda D ^a   Kim, Jungsuh P ^c   Kolberg, Janice ^d   Detmer, Jill ^d   Collins, Mark L ^d   Yun, Andersen J ^c   Viele, Maurene ^a   Lake, John R ^a   Roberts, John P ^a   Ascher, Nancy L ^a   Wright, Teresa L ^a,b,e  

^a Department of Medicine ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Genelabs Incorporated   (United States)

^d NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

^e SAN FRANCISCO VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; HEPATITIS G; HUMAN; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 0030916228     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.510250535     Document Type: Article

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