HGV/GBV-C in liver tissue and in sera from patients with chronic hepatitis C

Infection

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 283-287

  Fabris, P ^a   Biasin, M R ^b   Infantolino, D ^b   Romano L ^c   Benedetti, P ^a   Tositti, G ^a   Pellizzer, G P ^a   Zanetti, A R ^c   Stecca, C ^a   Marchelle, G ^b   De Lalla, F ^a  

^a SAN BORTOLO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b Castelfranco Veneto Hospital   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS G VIRUS; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; LIVER; LIVER HISTOLOGY; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 7344258913     PISSN: 03008126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02962248     Document Type: Article

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