Hepatitis C virus genotype distribution in Shiraz, Southern Iran

Hepatitis Monthly

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 122-127

  Davarpanah, Mohammad Ali ^a   Saberi Firouzi, Mehdi ^a   Lankarani, Kamran Bagheri ^a   Mehrabani, Davood ^a   Behzad Behbahani, Abbas ^b   Serati, Alireza ^a   Ardebili, Maryam ^a   Yousefi, Maryam ^a   Khademolhosseini, Famaz ^a   Keyvani Amineh, Hossein ^c  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c Thalasemia Prenatal Diagnosis and Biotechnology Research Center   (Iran)

Author keywords

Genotype; HCV; HZV; Iran

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMOPHILIA; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRISONER; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RNA EXTRACTION; TATTOOING; THALASSEMIA MAJOR; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 70349301938     PISSN: 1735143X     EISSN: 17353408     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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