Viral clearance or persistence after acute hepatitis C infection: Interim results from a prospective study

Medicina

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 510-520

  Guobuẑaite, Auŝra ^b   Chokshi, Shilpa ^a   Balĉiuniene, Ligita ^b   Voiniĉ, Alina ^b   Stikleryte, Auŝra ^b   Ẑagminas, Kestutis ^b   Ambrozaitis, Arvydas ^b   Naoumov, Nikolai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Faculty of Medicine   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Acute hepatitis; Hepatitis C virus; Immune response; T cells; Viral clearance

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENETICS; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME; VIROLOGY; VIRUS LOAD;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODIES; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RNA, VIRAL; TIME FACTORS; VIRAL LOAD;

EID: 54749097170     PISSN: 1010660X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/medicina44070066     Document Type: Article

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