GB virus C/Hepatitis G virus isolates in Japanese haemophiliacs and their origins

Thrombosis and Haemostasis

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 242-245

  Toyoda, Hidenori ^a   Fukuda, Yoshihide ^a   Hayakawa, Tetsuo ^a   Takamatsu, Junki ^a   Saito, Hidehiko ^a   Okamoto, Hiroaki ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; EUROPE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEMOPHILIA; HEPATITIS G VIRUS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; UNITED STATES; VIRUS HEPATITIS; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0031873158     PISSN: 03406245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0037-1615181     Document Type: Article

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