Analysis of 5′ Nontranslated Region of Hepatitis A Viral RNA Genotype I from South Korea: Comparison with disease Severities

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Kanda, Tatsuo ^a   Jeong, Sook Hyang ^b   Imazeki, Fumio ^a   Fujiwara, Keiichi ^a   Yokosuka, Osamu ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Seoul National University Bundang Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA; NUCLEOTIDE; PRIMER DNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ADULT; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS A VIRUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTH KOREA; VIRUS ISOLATION; WILD TYPE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; JAPAN; METHODOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS GENE;

HEPATITIS A VIRUS;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; DNA PRIMERS; GENES, VIRAL; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS A VIRUS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; JAPAN; NUCLEOTIDES; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 78650831885     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0015139     Document Type: Article

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