Hepatitis C virus in peripheral blood mononuclear cells from a chronically infected patient receiving liver graft from infected donor

Transplantation

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 627-629

  Radkowski, Marek ^a   Wang, Lian Fu ^a   Vargas, Hugo ^a   Rakela, Jorge ^a   Laskus, Tomasz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; HLA DR ANTIGEN; VIRUS RNA;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; ORGAN DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

EID: 0033608411     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199902270-00023     Document Type: Article

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