Uneven distribution of hepatitis C virus quasispecies in tissues from subjects with end-stage liver disease: Confounding effect of viral adsorption and mounting evidence for the presence of low-level extrahepatic replication

Journal of Virology

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 1014-1017

  Laskus, Tomasz ^a,d   Radkowski, Marek ^b   Wang, Lian Fu ^a   Nowicki, Marek ^c   Rakela, Jorge ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER FAILURE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS REPLICATION;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ADSORPTION; BASE SEQUENCE; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; LIVER FAILURE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VIRAL ENVELOPE PROTEINS; VIRION; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 0033986062     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.74.2.1014-1017.2000     Document Type: Article

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