Quasispecies analysis in hepatitis C virus infection by fluorescent single strand conformation polymorphism

Journal of Virological Methods

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 95-102

  Peters, Thomas ^a   Schlayer, Hans Joachim ^a   Hiller, Bernhard ^a   Rösler, Bernd ^a   Blum, Hubert ^a   Rasenack, Jens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

HCV; quasispecies; single strand conformation polymorphysm

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS CHARACTERIZATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, VIRAL; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VIRAL ENVELOPE PROTEINS;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

EID: 0031050609     PISSN: 01660934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-0934(96)02144-1     Document Type: Article

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