Characteristics of patients with chronic infection due to hepatitis C virus of mixed subtype: Prevalence, viral RNA concentrations, and response to interferon therapy

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 440-445

  Toyoda, Ilidenori ^a   Fukuda, Yoshihide ^b   Hayakawa, Tetsuo ^b   Takayama, Telsuo ^b   Kumada, Takashi ^b   Nakano, Satoshi ^b   Takamatsu, Junki ^b   Saito, Hidchiko ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; RECOMBINANT ALPHA2A INTERFERON; VIRUS RNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHILD; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS TYPING;

EID: 17344367726     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/516332     Document Type: Article

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