Characteristics of hepatitis C virus before and after interferon treatment in patients with ongoing viraemia but sustained biochemical response

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 7-11

  Donadel, Elena ^a   Pontisso, Patrizia ^a   Ruvoletto, Maria Grazia ^a   Gerotto, Martina ^a   De Salvo, Gianluca ^a   Chemello, Liliana ^a   Casarin, Carla ^a   Alberti, Alfredo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

5'UTR sequence analysis; Asymptomatic carriership; HCV infection; Viral load

Indexed keywords

INTERFERON; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; IMMUNOTHERAPY; NONHUMAN; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA STRUCTURE; VIREMIA; VIRUS GENOME;

ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; BASE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; INTERFERONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIRAL LOAD;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 0031984503     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9071(199801)54:1<7::AID-JMV2>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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