Spontaneous HCV clearance: An association with gender, age, viral genotypes, infection transmission routes, and markers of HBV and HIV

Terapevticheskii Arkhiv

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 52-56

  Fedorchenko, S V ^a   Martynovich, T L ^a   Lyashok, O V ^a   Karyuk, Zh A ^a   Yanchenko, V I ^a  

^a STATE INSTITUTION NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR RADIATION MEDICINE OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES OF UKRAINE   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Co infection; HCV genotype; HCV replication; Nonstructural viral proteins; Spontaneous eradiation; Superinfection

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CORE PROTEIN; HEPATITIS B ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS C ANTIGEN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNOLOGY; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REMISSION; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS B ANTIBODIES; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODIES; HEPATITIS C ANTIGENS; HIV ANTIBODIES; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, HUMORAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REMISSION, SPONTANEOUS; SEX FACTORS; VIRAL CORE PROTEINS; VIRAL NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEINS;

EID: 77952058909     PISSN: 00403660     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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