Distribution of hepatitis C virus genotypes in patients on regular hemodialysis

Periodicum Biologorum

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 29-32

  Slaviček, Jasna ^a,b   Puretić, Zvonimir ^a   Kalenić, Smilja ^b   Rebrović, Božica ^b   Grahovac, Blaženka ^c   Glavaš Boras, Snježana ^a   Mareković, Zvonimir ^a   Slaviček, Vladimir ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b KBC Zagreb   (Croatia)

^c CROATIAN INSTITUTE OF TRANSFUSION MEDICINE   (Croatia)

^d Traumatology Hospital   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Anti HCV; Chronic HD patients; HCV genotypes; Hepatitis C virus; Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROATIA; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRUS LOAD;

EID: 0343962146     PISSN: 00315362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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