An infectious molecular clone of a Japanese genotype 1b hepatitis C virus

Hepatology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 316-324

  Beard, Michael R ^a   Abell, Geoffrey ^a   Honda, Masao ^b   Carroll, Anthony ^c   Gartland, Margaret ^c   Clarke, Berwyn ^c   Suzuki, Koyu ^d   Lanford, Robert ^e   Sangar, David V ^a   Lemon, Stanley M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

^d NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e SOUTHWEST FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INOCULATION; LIVER HISTOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROCONVERSION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS INFECTIVITY; VIRUS STRAIN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA, VIRAL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOTYPE; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C ANTIGENS; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; JAPAN; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYLOGENY; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0033063225     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.510300137     Document Type: Article

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