Detection of a 5′ end subgenome of hepatitis C virus terminating at nucleotide 384 in patients' plasma and liver tissues

Journal of Viral Hepatitis

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 746-755

  Shimizu, Y K ^a   Hijikata, M ^b   Oshima, M ^c   Shimizu, K ^a   Yoshikura, H ^c  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

5 end subgenomic HCV RNA; A rich region; Hepatitis C virus

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC RNA; VIRUS RNA; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECURRENT DISEASE; RNA EXTRACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS REPLICATION; ANIMAL; BLOOD; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PAN TROGLODYTES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIROLOGY;

ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PAN TROGLODYTES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL;

EID: 33750047837     PISSN: 13520504     EISSN: 13652893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2893.2006.00745.x     Document Type: Article

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