De novo hepatitis C in children after liver transplantation

Transplantation

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 311-318

  Mcdiarmid, Sue V ^a   Conrad, Andrew ^b   Ament, Marvin E ^a   Vargas, Jorge ^a   Martin, Martin G ^a   Goss, John A ^a   Busuttil, Ronald W ^a  

^a UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b National Genetics Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; GAMMA INTERFERON;

ARTICLE; CHILD; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE;

EID: 0032529239     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199808150-00006     Document Type: Article

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