Surreptitious hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection detected in the majority of patients with cryptogenic chronic hepatitis and negative HCV antibody tests

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 176, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 27-33

  Schmidt, Warren N ^a   Wu, Ping ^b   Cederna, Jean ^c   Mitros, Frank A ^d   LaBrecque, Douglas R ^d   Stapleton, Jack T ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

^b R and D Department   (China)

^c Infectious Diseases Associates   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; SERODIAGNOSIS; VIRUS DETECTION;

EID: 0030996906     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/514033     Document Type: Article

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