Hepatitis C viral quasispecies and liver damage in patients with chronic hepatitis C virus infection

Hepatology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 697-701

  Hayashi, Jun ^a   Kishihara, Yasuhiro ^a   Yamaji, Kouzaburo ^a   Furusyo, Norihiro ^a   Yamamoto, Tetsuro ^a   Pae, Youngduk ^a   Etoh, Yoshitaka ^a   Ikematsu, Hideyuki ^a   Kashiwagi, Seizaburo ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; AGED; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; JAPAN; LIVER INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS GENOME;

AGED; ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; FEMALE; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS, CHRONIC; HUMANS; JAPAN; LIVER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RNA, VIRAL; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 0031043398     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.510250334     Document Type: Article

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