Detection of hepatitis C by RT-PCR in formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue from liver transplant patients

Diagnostic Molecular Pathology

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 123-129

  Svoboda Newman, Suzette M ^c   Greenson, Joel K ^c   Singleton, Timothy P ^c   Sun, Rong ^c   Frank, Thomas S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HOSPITALS   (United States)

^b Myriad Genetic Laboratories   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Hepatitis; Hepatitis C; Immunohistochemistry; Liver transplant; Paraffin embedded tissue; Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODY; PARAFFIN; RNA;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EMBEDDING; HEPATITIS C; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROLOGY; TISSUE FIXATION;

FORMALDEHYDE; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; TISSUE FIXATION;

EID: 0030938103     PISSN: 10529551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019606-199704000-00009     Document Type: Article

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