High TT virus load as an independent factor associated with the occurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma among patients with hepatitis C virus-related chronic liver disease

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 501-509

  Tokita, Hajime ^a   Murai, Seiyou ^a   Kamitsukasa, Hiroshi ^a   Yagura, Michiyasu ^a   Harada, Hideharu ^a   Takahashi, Masaharu ^b   Okamoto, Hiroaki ^b  

^a Organization Tokyo National Hospital   (Japan)

^b JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Genotype; Multivariate analysis; Real time PCR; Untranslated region; Viremia

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CANCER RISK; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; LIVER CARCINOGENESIS; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROGNOSIS; TORQUE TENO VIRUS; VIREMIA; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS LOAD;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CHRONIC DISEASE; DNA VIRUS INFECTIONS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TORQUE TENO VIRUS; VIRAL LOAD; VIREMIA;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS; TT VIRUS;

EID: 0036308012     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmv.10129     Document Type: Article

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