Molecular epidemiology of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 and hepatitis C virus in former blood donors in central China

AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-6

  Liu, Pingping ^a   Xiang, Kunlun ^a   Tang, Heng ^b   Zhang, Wei ^a   Wang, Xiaoqiong ^a   Tong, Xiao ^a   Takebe, Yutaka ^c   Yang, Rongge ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b Hubei Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHINA; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS RECOMBINANT;

BLOOD DONORS; CHINA; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PREVALENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 38149014110     PISSN: 08892229     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/aid.2007.0144     Document Type: Article

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