Analyses of amino acid sequences in hypervariable region-1 of hepatitis C virus (HCV) in sera from chimpanzees infected three times with the same HCV strain

Journal of Medical Primatology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-8

  Sugitani, M ^a   Nishimura, S ^b   Mizuno, K ^b   Shikata, T ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Kaketsuken   (Japan)

Author keywords

Immune response; Major clone; Re infection

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS C ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFECTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; APE DISEASES; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGIONS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENETIC VARIATION; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PAN TROGLODYTES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS; PAN;

EID: 73949113397     PISSN: 00472565     EISSN: 16000684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0684.2009.00386.x     Document Type: Article

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