Spontaneous clearance of hepatitis C virus in an interleukin 28B favorable genotype highly prevalent area

Hepatology

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 2089-2090

  Hung, Chao Hung ^a   Chang, Kuo Chin ^a   Lu, Sheng Nan ^a   Wang, Jing Houng ^a   Chen, Chien Hung ^a   Lee, Chuan Mo ^a   Hu, Tsung Hui ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 28B;

ALLELE; BLOOD CHEMISTRY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LETTER; PERSISTENT VIRUS INFECTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VIRAL CLEARANCE; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS STRAIN;

EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; MALE; RNA, VIRAL; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 84876706370     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: 15273350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.26002     Document Type: Letter

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