Hepatitis C virus genotypes in blood donors from the Federal District, Central Brazil

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Volumn 99, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 895-897

  Amorim, Regina M S ^a,e   Oliveira, Claudiner P ^a,e   Wyant, Patrícia S ^a,e   Cerqueira, Daniela M ^a,e   Câmara, Geni N L ^b   Flores, Luciano S ^c   Martins, Regina M B ^d   Martins, Cláudia R F ^a  

^a Instituto de Biologia   (Brazil)

^b Agencia Nacional de Vigilancia Sanitaria Brazil   (Brazil)

^c Fundação Hemocentro de Brasília FHB   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

^e CNPq   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Federal District, Central Brazil; Genotypes; Hepatitis C virus

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD SAMPLING; BRAZIL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROIMMUNOASSAY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCREENING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROLOGY; VIRUS GENOME;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

EID: 13844267763     PISSN: 00740276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762004000800019     Document Type: Article

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