Vertical transmission of the hepatitis C virus to infants of anti-human immunodeficiency virus-negative mothers: Molecular evolution of hypervariable region 1 in prenatal and perinatal or postnatal infections

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 3955-3959

  Caudai, C ^a   Battiata, M ^a   Riccardi, M P ^b   Toti, M ^b   Bonazza, P ^b   Padula, M G ^a   Pianese, M ^a   Valensin, P E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b MISERICORDIA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; FOLLOW UP; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INFANT; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEWBORN INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROLOGY; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGIONS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; DNA PRIMERS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HIV SERONEGATIVITY; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; TIME FACTORS; VIREMIA;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 0043023961     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.8.3955-3959.2003     Document Type: Article

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