The entire nucleotide sequences of three hepatitis C virus isolates in genetic groups 7-9 and comparison with those in the other eight genetic groups

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 79, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1847-1857

  Tokita, Hajime ^a   Okamoto, Hiroaki ^a   Iizuka, Hisao ^b   Kishimoto, Junichi ^c   Tsuda, Fumio ^d   Miyakawa, Yuzo ^e   Mayumi, Makoto ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPANESE RED CROSS SOCIETY   (Japan)

^c Institute of Immunology Co Ltd   (Japan)

^d Shinagawa ku   (Japan)

^e Miyakawa Memorial Research Foundation   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRUS CLASSIFICATION;

EID: 0031820951     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/0022-1317-79-8-1847     Document Type: Article

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