Variation of hepatitis C virus following serial transmission: Multiple mechanisms of diversification of the hypervariable region and evidence for convergent genome evolution

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 717-725

  Casino, Carmela ^a   McAllister, Jane ^a   Davidson, Fiona ^b   Power, Joan ^c   Lawlor, Emer ^c   Yap, Peng Lee ^b   Simmonds, Peter ^a   Smith, Donald B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b Edinburgh S E Scotland Blood T   (United Kingdom)

^c St Finbarr's Hospital   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RHESUS D ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; GENE SEQUENCE; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNIQUE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS MUTATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0033033612     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/0022-1317-80-3-717     Document Type: Article

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