Infection with GB virus C in patients with chronic liver disease

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 175-181

  Sugai, Yoshiki ^a   Nakayama, Haruo ^a   Fukuda, Masako ^b   Sawada, Naoto ^b   Tanaka, Takeshi ^c   Tsuda, Fumio ^d   Okamoto, Hiroaki ^e   Miyakawa, Yuzo ^f   Mayumi, Makoto ^e  

^a Iwaki Kyoritsu General Hospital   (Japan)

^b Institute of Immunology Co Ltd   (Japan)

^c JAPANESE RED CROSS SOCIETY   (Japan)

^d Shinagawa ku   (Japan)

^e JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f Miyakawa Memorial Research Foundation   (Japan)

Author keywords

blood transfusion; chronic hepatitis; hepatitis B virus; hepatitis C virus; hepatitis virus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HEPATITIS G VIRUS; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA HELICASES; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; FLAVIVIRIDAE; HEPATITIS; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS, VIRAL, HUMAN; HUMANS; JAPAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

GB VIRUS C/HEPATITIS G VIRUS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; NON-A, NON-B HEPATITIS VIRUS;

EID: 0030990511     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9071(199703)51:3<175::AID-JMV6>3.0.CO;2-3     Document Type: Article

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