Detection of hepatitis C virus core protein circulating within different virus particle populations

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-6

  Masalova, O V ^a   Atanadze, S N ^a   Samokhvalov, E I ^a   Petrakova, N V ^a   Kalinina, T I ^a   Smirnov, V D ^a   Khudyakov, Y E ^a,b   Fields, H A ^b   Kushch, A A ^a  

^a D I IVANOVSKY INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Antigenic determinants; Immune complexes; Immunoenzyme analysis; Monoclonal antibodies; Recombinant HCV proteins

Indexed keywords

CORE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; NONHUMAN; VIRUS CORE; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS PARTICLE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C ANTIGENS; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; VIRAL CORE PROTEINS; VIRION;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS; RNA VIRUSES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PHAGE 3A;

EID: 0031859113     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9071(199805)55:1<1::AID-JMV1>3.0.CO;2-7     Document Type: Article

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