Investigating the origin and spread of hepatitis C virus genotype 5a

Journal of Virology

Volumn 80, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 4220-4226

  Verbeeck, Jannick ^a   Maes, Piet ^a   Lemey, Philippe ^a,b   Pybus, Oliver G ^b   Wollants, Elke ^a   Song, Ernie ^c   Nevens, Frederik ^d   Fevery, Johan ^d   Delport, Wayne ^e   Van Der Merwe, Schalk ^f   Van Ranst, Marc ^a  

^a REGA INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BELGIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTH AFRICA; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

BELGIUM; GENOTYPE; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; TIME FACTORS;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 33646173074     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.80.9.4220-4226.2006     Document Type: Article

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