Detection of hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA in normal cervical smears of HCV-seropositive patients

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 966-973

  Manavi, Mahmood ^a   Baghestanian, Mehrdad ^a   Watkins Riedel, Thomas ^a   Battistutti, Walter ^a   Pischinger, Kerstin ^a   Schatten, Christian ^a   Witschko, Eveline ^a   Hudelist, Gernot ^a   Hofmann, Hanns ^a   Czerwenka, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; GRANULOCYTE; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; SEROTYPING; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY;

ADULT; CERVIX UTERI; FEMALE; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; RNA, VIRAL; SEROLOGIC TESTS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 0037108612     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/342909     Document Type: Article

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