Prevalence of hepatitis G virus infection among patients with liver diseases in Japan

International Hepatology Communications

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 239-248

  Abe, Kenji ^a   Moriyama, Mitsuhiko ^b   Hayashi, Shigeki ^c   Nakai, Kazuhiko ^a   Miyauchi, Ikuo ^a   Edamoto, Yoshihiro ^a   Saito, Tamiko ^a   Fukushima, Sugano ^c   Shimizu, Toshihiro ^b   Matsumura, Hiroshi ^b   Arakawa, Yasuyuki ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

hepatitis G virus; HGV genome sequence in 5' noncoding region; prevalence of HGV infection in Japan

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; GENOME; HUMAN; JAPAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DISEASE; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS HEPATITIS; VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 0031080354     PISSN: 09284346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0928-4346(97)00352-6     Document Type: Article

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