Quantitation of hepatitis C virus in liver and peripheral blood mononuclear cells from patients with chronic hepatitis C virus infection

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 265-270

  Martín, Julio ^a,b   Navas, Sonia ^a,b   Quiroga, Juan Antonio ^a,b   Colucci, Giuseppe ^c   Pardo, Margarita ^a,b   Carreño, Vicente ^a,b  

^a Hospital UniversitarioFundación Jiménez Díaz   (Spain)

^b Fund El Estud Las Hepat Virales   (Spain)

^c F HOFFMANN LA ROCHE LTD   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

HCV genotypes; HCV RNA quantitation; Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection; Intrahepatic viral load; Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC)

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER; LIVER BIOPSY; MALE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TECHNIQUE; VIRUS LOAD;

ADULT; FEMALE; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; LIVER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RNA, VIRAL;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 0031896586     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9071(199804)54:4<265::AID-JMV5>3.0.CO;2-2     Document Type: Article

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