Quality control study on the performance of GB virus C/hepatitis G virus PCR

Journal of Hepatology

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 978-984

  Künkel, Udo ^a   Höhne, Marina ^a   Berg, Thomas ^b   Hopf, Uwe ^b   Kekulé, Alexader S ^c   Frösner, Gert ^c   Pauli, Georg ^a   Schreier, Eckart ^a  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

GB virus C; Hepatitis G virus; Quality assessment; RT PCR

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; FLAVIVIRUS; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS G VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS ISOLATION;

EID: 0032101816     PISSN: 01688278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-8278(98)80346-2     Document Type: Article

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