Assessment of hepatitis B virus DNA stability in serum by the chiron quantiplex branched-DNA assay

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 382-386

  Krajden, Mel ^a,b,e   Comanor, Lorraine ^c   Rifkin, Oretta ^a   Grigoriew, Anna ^a   Minor, James M ^c   Kapke, Gordon F ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

^d Labcorp Drug Development   (United States)

^e TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DNA DETERMINATION; GENETIC STABILITY; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; VIRUS GENE;

ANIMALIA; CHIRON; DNA VIRUSES; HEPATITIS B VIRUS;

EID: 0031975087     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.36.2.382-386.1998     Document Type: Article

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