Sequence and structural analysis of 3′ untranslated region of hepatitis C virus, genotype 3a, from Pakistani isolates

Hepatitis Monthly

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Anjum, Sadia ^a   Ali, Sidra ^a   Ahmad, Tahir ^a   Afzal, Muhammad Sohail ^a   Waheed, Yasir ^a   Shafi, Talha ^a   Ashraf, Muhammad ^a   Andleeb, Saadia ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Hepacivirus; Multilocus Sequence Typing; Phylogeny; Untranslated Regions

Indexed keywords

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DNA PACKAGING; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PAKISTAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; VIRUS INFECTIVITY; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 84881130338     PISSN: 1735143X     EISSN: 17353408     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5812/hepatmon.8390     Document Type: Article

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