Use of a novel hepatitis C virus (HCV) major-epitope chimeric polypeptide for diagnosis of HCV infection

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1393-1397

  Chien, David Y ^a   Arcangel, Phillip ^a   Medina Selby, Angelica ^a   Coit, Doris ^a   Baumeister, Mark ^a   Nguyen, Steve ^a   George Nascimento, Carlos ^a   Gyenes, Alexander ^a   Kuo, George ^a   Valenzuela, Pablo ^a  

^a NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; INFECTIOUS HEPATITIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; SEROCONVERSION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENOME;

DNA VIRUSES; HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

EID: 0032894738     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.37.5.1393-1397.1999     Document Type: Article

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