Molecular epidemiology of an outbreak of HCV in a hemodialysis unit: Direct sequencing of HCV-HVR1 as an appropriate tool for phylogenetic analysis

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 152-158

  Grethe, Stefanie ^a   Gemsa, Friederike ^a   Monazahian, Masyar ^a   Böhme, Ingo ^a   Uy, Angela ^a   Thomssen, Reiner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anti HCV; Nosocomial transmission; Phylogenetic tree; RT PCR

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS C ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GERMANY; HEMODIALYSIS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS MORPHOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; BASE SEQUENCE; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GERMANY; HEMODIALYSIS UNITS, HOSPITAL; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; VIRAL PROTEINS;

DNA VIRUSES; HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

EID: 0033987482     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9071(200002)60:2<152::AID-JMV8>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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