Novel infectious cDNA clones of hepatitis C virus genotype 3a (strain S52) and 4a (strain ED43): Genetic analyses and in vivo pathogenesis studies

Journal of Virology

Volumn 84, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 5277-5293

  Gottwein, Judith M ^a,b   Scheel, Troels K H ^a,b   Callendret, Benoit ^c   Li, Yi Ping ^a,b   Eccleston, Heather B ^c   Engle, Ronald E ^d   Govindarajan, Sugantha ^e   Satterfield, William ^f   Purcell, Robert H ^d   Walker, Christopher M ^c   Bukh, Jens ^a,b,d  

^a HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^e RANCHO LOS AMIGOS NATIONAL REHABILITATION CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; LIVER ENZYME; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

ACUTE HEPATITIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CHIMPANZEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IN VIVO STUDY; INFECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; VIRUS STRAIN;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, NEUTRALIZING; CELL LINE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENOTYPE; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODIES; HEPATOCYTES; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; MONKEY DISEASES; PAN TROGLODYTES; RNA, VIRAL; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

ANIMALIA; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS GENOTYPE 3; PAN;

EID: 77951437990     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.02667-09     Document Type: Article

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