Occult hepatitis C virus infection revisited with ultrasensitive real-time PCR assay

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2106-2108

  Halfon, Philippe ^a   Bourlière, Marc ^b   Ouzan, Denis ^c   Sène, Damien ^d   Saadoun, David ^d   Khiri, Hacène ^a   Pénaranda, Guillaume ^e   Martineau, Agnes ^a   Oulès, Valérie ^b   Cacoub, Patrice ^d  

^a Hospital Ambroise Pare   (France)

^b HÔPITAL SAINT JOSEPH   (France)

^c INSTITUT ARNAULT TZANCK   (France)

^d SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^e CDL Pharma   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAMMA GLUTAMYL TRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DISEASE; MALE; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYSTEMIC VASCULITIS;

ADULT; AGED; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASES; FEMALE; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; LIVER; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VASCULITIS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

EID: 45149086647     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00345-08     Document Type: Article

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