Identification of Unique Hepatitis C Virus Quasispecies in the Central Nervous System and Comparative Analysis of Internal Translational Efficiency of Brain, Liver, and Serum Variants

Journal of Virology

Volumn 78, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 5170-5183

  Forton, Daniel M ^a,b   Karayiannis, Peter ^a   Mahmud, Nadiya ^a   Taylor Robinson, Simon D ^a   Thomas, Howard C ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; CYSTEINE; GLYCINE; VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CELL CULTURE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; GENE CLUSTER; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERNAL RIBOSOME ENTRY SITE; LIVER; LYMPH NODE; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; RETICULOCYTE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SERUM; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS LATENCY; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS TRANSCRIPTION;

BASE SEQUENCE; BRAIN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; HEPACIVIRUS; HUMANS; LIVER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RIBOSOMES; RNA, VIRAL; VIREMIA;

EID: 2342655833     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.78.10.5170-5183.2004     Document Type: Article

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