TT virus infection in patients with hepatitis C: Frequency, persistence, and sequence heterogeneity

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 180, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 27-34

  Irving, William L ^a   Ball, Jonathan K ^a   Berridge, Selina ^a   Curran, Rebecca ^a   Grabowska, Anna M ^a   Jameson, Claire L ^a   Neal, Keith R ^a   Ryder, Steven D ^a   Thomson, Brian J ^a  

^a QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROPREVALENCE; SUPERINFECTION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DNA VIRUS INFECTIONS; DNA VIRUSES; DNA, VIRAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0032977710     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/314825     Document Type: Article

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