Separation of near full-length hepatitis C virus quasispecies variants from a complex population

Journal of Virological Methods

Volumn 141, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 220-224

  Zhou, Donghui ^a,c   Fan, Xiaofeng ^a,b   Tan, De ^a   Xu, Yanjuan ^a   Tavis, John E ^a,b   Di Bisceglie, Adrian M ^a,b  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Saint Louis University   (United States)

^c NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Hepatitis C; Hypervariable region 1; Long RT PCR; Quasispecies

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VALIDATION PROCESS; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS MUTATION;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOME, VIRAL; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS); VIRAL PROTEINS;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

EID: 33947505046     PISSN: 01660934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jviromet.2006.12.002     Document Type: Article

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