High serum hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA load predicts the presence of HCV RNA in saliva from individuals with chronic and acute HCV infection

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 193, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 672-676

  Wang, Chia C ^a   Morishima, Chihiro ^a,b   Chung, Minjun ^a   Engelberg, Rebecca ^a   Krantz, Elizabeth ^a   Krows, Meighan ^a   Sullivan, Daniel G ^a   Gretch, David R ^a   Corey, Lawrence ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SALIVA LEVEL; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS LOAD;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RNA, VIRAL; SALIVA; STATISTICS; VIRAL LOAD;

EID: 33144470725     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/499602     Document Type: Article

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