Contrary to HIV, hepatitis C virus is not associated with erythrocytes in vivo [4]

Journal of Hepatology

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 150-152

  Sadallah, Salima ^a   Heim, Markus ^a   Hess, Christoph ^a   Klimkait, Thomas ^b   Battegay, Manuel ^a   Schifferli, Jürg A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Erythrocytes; HCV; HIV 1; Immune complexes

Indexed keywords

INTERFERON; VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

BINDING AFFINITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; ERYTHROCYTE; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IN VIVO STUDY; LETTER; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURIFICATION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS LOAD;

ERYTHROCYTES; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; RNA, VIRAL;

EID: 11144311966     PISSN: 01688278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhep.2004.07.027     Document Type: Letter

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