Method to detect substitutions in the interferon-sensitivity-determining region of hepatitis C virus 1b for prediction of response to interferon therapy

Hepatology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 241-247

  Nishiguchi, Shuhei ^a   Ueda, Tadashi ^a   Itoh, Teiji ^b   Enomoto, Masaru ^a   Tanaka, Motoharu ^a   Tatsumi, Nobuyuki ^a   Fukuda, Katsuhiko ^a   Tamori, Akihiro ^a   Habu, Daiki ^a   Takeda, Tadashi ^a   Otani, Shuzo ^c   Shiomi, Susumu ^a  

^a Osaka City University   (Japan)

^b Tomakomai Clinical Laboratory Inc   (Japan)

^c OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; VIRUS RNA;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS RESISTANCE;

EID: 0035196527     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/jhep.2001.20795     Document Type: Article

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