Selective transmission of hepatitis C virus quasi species through a needlestick accident in acute resolving hepatitis

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1254-1259

  Liu, Chen Hua ^a   Chen, Bing Fang ^b   Chen, Shu Ching ^a   Lai, Ming Yang ^a   Kao, Jia Horng ^a   Chen, Ding Shinn ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b FU JEN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEEDLESTICK INJURY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; FEMALE; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEEDLESTICK INJURIES; PHYLOGENY; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 33646100308     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/503040     Document Type: Article

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