Detection of antibodies to a putative hepatitis G virus envelope protein

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Volumn 349, Issue 9048, 1997, Pages 318-320

  Tacke, Michael ^a   Kiyosawa, Kendo ^b   Stark, Klaus ^c   Schlueter, Volker ^a   Ofenloch Haehnle, Beatus ^a   Hess, Georg ^a   Engel, Alfred M ^a  

^a F HOFFMANN LA ROCHE LTD   (Switzerland)

^b SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Institute of Tropical Medicine   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS ANTIGEN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HEPATITIS; HEPATITIS VIRUS; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0031035191     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(96)06461-6     Document Type: Article

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