GB virus C, hepatitis G virus, or human orphan flavivirus?

Hepatology

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1285-1286

  Theodore, Dickens ^b   Lemon, Stanley M ^a,b  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AREA UNDER THE CURVE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDITORIAL; FLAVIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS G; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION;

EID: 0030917697     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.510250541     Document Type: Editorial

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