Absence of hepatitis G virus within liver tissue of patients undergoing liver transplantation for cryptogenic cirrhosis

Transplantation

Volumn 67, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1193-1197

  Schiano, Thomas D ^a   Fiel, Maria Isabel ^a   Abe, Kenji ^b   Thung, Swan N ^a   Bodenheimer, Henry C ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEPATITIS G VIRUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEROPREVALENCE;

ACTINS; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; FEMALE; FLAVIVIRIDAE; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, ALCOHOLIC; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, BILIARY; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL;

EID: 0033609130     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199904270-00020     Document Type: Article

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