Mixed genotype infections with hepatitis C virus, Pakistan

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1565-1567

  Butt, Sadia ^a   Idrees, Muhammad ^a   Irshad Ur Rehman, ^a   Akbar, Haji ^a   Shahid, Muhammad ^a   Afzal, Samia ^a   Younas, Saima ^a   Amin, Iram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE PUNJAB   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIXED GENOTYPE INFECTION; MIXED INFECTION; PAKISTAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SEROTYPING;

ADULT; COINFECTION; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAKISTAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79960872511     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1708.100950     Document Type: Letter

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