Tracing the evolution of hepatitis C virus in the United States, Japan, and Egypt by using the molecular clock

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 3, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2005, Pages

  Mizokami, Masashi ^a   Tanaka, Yasuhito ^a  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMONY;

CANCER INCIDENCE; CONFERENCE PAPER; EGYPT; EPIDEMIC; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; JAPAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MOLECULAR CLOCK; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; UNITED STATES; VIROGENESIS; VIRUS GENOME;

ANTIMONY; EGYPT; ENDEMIC DISEASES; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOTYPE; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; JAPAN; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; RISK FACTORS; RNA, VIRAL; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; TARTRATES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 26444565314     PISSN: 15423565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1542-3565(05)00705-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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