Failure to detect xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus in blood of individuals at high risk of blood-borne viral infections

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 202, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1482-1485

  Barnes, Eleanor ^a   Flanagan, Peter ^a   Brown, Anthony ^a   Robinson, Nicola ^a   Brown, Helen ^a   McClure, Myra ^c   Oxenius, Annette ^d   Collier, Jane ^b   Weber, Jonathan ^c   Günthard, Huldrych F ^e   Hirschel, Bernard ^f   Fidler, Sarah ^c   Phillips, Rodney ^a   Frater, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^f University Hospital   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAG PROTEIN; GAMMA INTERFERON;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVELOPE GENE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSPOT ASSAY; EX VIVO STUDY; FEMALE; GENE TARGETING; GROUP SPECIFIC ANTIGEN GENE; HEPATITIS C; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1 INFECTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; T LYMPHOCYTE; UNITED KINGDOM; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS INFECTION; WESTERN EUROPE; XENOTROPIC MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; XENOTROPIC VIRUS;

ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EUROPE; FEMALE; GENE PRODUCTS, GAG; GENES, VIRAL; GREAT BRITAIN; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; INTERFERON-GAMMA; LEUKEMIA VIRUS, MURINE; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; RISK FACTORS; TUMOR VIRUS INFECTIONS; VIRAL ENVELOPE PROTEINS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78349291176     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/657167     Document Type: Article

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