The presence of active hepatitis C virus replication in lymphoid tissue in patients coinfected with human immunodeficiency virus type 1

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 178, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1189-1192

  Laskus, Tomasz ^a   Radkowski, Marek ^b   Wang, Lian Fu ^c   Vargas, Hugo ^c   Rakela, Jorge ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 0031710598     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/515682     Document Type: Article

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