Tt virus infection does not affect the clinical profiles of patients with hepatitis B and C in Yanbian City, China

Intervirology

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 214-221

  Moriyama, Mitsuhiko ^a   Longren, Wu ^b   Zi Yi, Zhao ^a   Oshiro, Shuh ^a   Matsumura, Hiroshi ^a   Aoki, Hiroshi ^a   Shimizu, Toshihiro ^a   Nakai, Kazuhiko ^a   Yamagami, Hiroaki ^a   Kaneko, Miki ^a   Shioda, Atsuo ^a   Ichijima, Sagiri ^a   Iwaguchi, Kayo ^a   Iwasaki, Hiroko ^a   Tanaka, Naohide ^a   Arakawa, Yasuyuki ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b YANBIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Hepatitis B; Hepatitis C; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Phylogenetic analysis; TT virus DNA; TT virus infection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; HEPATITIS; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; JAPAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEROLOGY; VIRUS ISOLATION;

ADULT; BASE SEQUENCE; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CHINA; DNA VIRUS INFECTIONS; DNA, VIRAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B, CHRONIC; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TORQUE TENO VIRUS;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS; TT VIRUS;

EID: 0041386054     PISSN: 03005526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000072430     Document Type: Article

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