Acceleration of hepatitis C virus envelope evolution in humans is consistent with progressive humoral immune selection during the transition from acute to chronic infection

Journal of Virology

Volumn 84, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 5067-5077

  Liu, Lin ^a,c   Fisher, Brian E ^a   Dowd, Kimberly A ^a   Astemborski, Jacquie ^a   Cox, Andrea L ^a,b   Ray, Stuart C ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; ENVELOPE GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; VIRUS ENVELOPE;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, NEUTRALIZING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODIES; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PHYLOGENY; RNA, VIRAL; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIRAL ENVELOPE PROTEINS; YOUNG ADULT;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

EID: 77951453698     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.02265-09     Document Type: Article

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