Distribution of hepatitis C virus genotypes among hemodialysis patients in Tehran - A multicenter study

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 569-573

  Hosseini Moghaddam, Seyed Mohammadmehdi ^a,b   Keyvani, Hossein ^a   Kasiri, Hossein ^a   Kazemeyni, Seyed Mohammad ^a   Basiri, Abbas ^a   Aghel, Nazanin ^a   Alavian, Seyed Moayed ^a  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b UNRC   (Iran)

Author keywords

Genotypes; Hepatitis C virus; Renal dialysis

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS C ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEMODIALYSIS; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PREVALENCE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VIRUS STRAIN;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS UNITS, HOSPITAL; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; IRAN; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RENAL DIALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; RNA, VIRAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; URBAN POPULATION;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 33645925028     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: 10969071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmv.20577     Document Type: Article

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