Prospective comparison of whole-blood- and plasma-based hepatitis C virus RNA detection systems: Improved detection using whole blood as the source of viral RNA

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 484-489

  Stapleton, Jack T ^a,b,c   Klinzman, Donna ^a   Schmidt, Warren N ^a,b   Pfaller, Michael A ^b   Wu, Ping ^a,b,d   Labrecque, Douglas R ^a,b   Han, Jian Qiu ^a,b,e   Phillips, Mary Jeanne Perino ^b   Woolson, Robert ^b   Alden, Beth ^b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

^d R and D Department   (China)

^e SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFERON; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSAY; BLOOD; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PLASMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS DETECTION;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 0033058348     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.37.3.484-489.1999     Document Type: Article

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