Hepatitis C virus quasispecies: Misunderstood and mistreated?

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1048-1052

  McCaughan, Geoffrey W ^a   Laskus, Tomasz ^b   Vargas, Hugo E ^b  

^a ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b MAYO CLINIC COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODY; LIVER ENZYME; RNA POLYMERASE; VIRUS RNA;

AGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; EDITORIAL; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES; SUBACUTE SCLEROSING PANENCEPHALITIS; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS MUTATION; VIRUS PATHOGENESIS; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

EID: 0142248358     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/jlts.2003.50260     Document Type: Article

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