Hepatitis g virus co-infection in liver transplantation recipients with chronic hepatitis c and nonviral chronic liver disease

Hepatology

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1271-1275

  Fried, Michael W ^a,b   Khudyakov, Yuri E ^a   Smallwood, Gregory A ^a   Cong, Mion E R ^a   Nichols, Barbara ^a   Diaz, Emma ^b   Siefert, Paul ^b   Gutekunst, Karen ^d   Gordon, Robert D ^c   Boyer, Thomas D ^a   Fields, Howard A ^a  

^a Department of Medicine ^*  (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^d HOFFMANN LA ROCHE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOTRANSFERASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA VIRUS; VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 0030980736     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.510250536     Document Type: Article

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