High prevalence of GB virus-C/hepatitis G virus infection in liver transplant recipients

Transplantation

Volumn 63, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1695-1697

  Dickson, Rolland C ^a,b   Qian, Keping ^a   Lau, Johnson Y N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS; CHOLESTATIC HEPATITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEPATITIS; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS G VIRUS; HEPATITIS VIRUS; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS DETECTION;

ADULT; ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; BIOPSY; FEMALE; FLAVIVIRIDAE; HEPATITIS, VIRAL, HUMAN; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0031005537     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199706150-00028     Document Type: Article

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