Comparison of amino acid sequences in hypervariable region-1 of hepatitis C virus clones between human inocula and the infected chimpanzee sera

Virus Research

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 177-182

  Sugitani, Masahiko ^a   Shikata, Toshio ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amino acid sequences; Chimpanzee titration experiment; Hepatitis C virus; Hypervariable region 1; Transmission

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY COMPLEX; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA STRUCTURE; VIRUS INFECTIVITY; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; HEPACIVIRUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PAN TROGLODYTES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS; PAN (APE); PAN TROGLODYTES;

EID: 0032143948     PISSN: 01681702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1702(98)00070-7     Document Type: Article

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