Non-isotopic detection of hepatitis C virus quasispecies by single strand conformation polymorphism

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 245-251

  Lee, Jung Hun ^a   Stripf, Tobias ^a   Roth, W Kurt ^b   Zeuzem, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE FOR TUMOR BIOLOGY AND EXPERIMENTAL THERAPY   (Germany)

Author keywords

HCV quasispecies; Hepatitis C virus; Hypervariable regions; Interferon ; Single strand conformation polymorphism

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; NONHUMAN; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENE;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 0031411205     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9071(199711)53:3<245::AID-JMV11>3.0.CO;2-G     Document Type: Article

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