A novel method to identify routes of hepatitis C virus transmission

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Féray, Cyrille ^a   Bouscaillou, Julie ^b   Falissard, Bruno ^c   Mohamed, Mostafa K ^d   Arafa, Naglaa ^d   Bakr, Iman ^d   El Hoseiny, Mostafa ^d   El Daly, Mai ^e,f   El Kafrawy, Sherif ^e,f   Plancoulaine, Sabine ^g   Abdel Hamid, Mohamed ^f,h   Thiers, Valérie ⁱ   Fontanet, Arnaud ^b,j  

^a HENRI MONDOR HOSPITAL   (France)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^c Universite Paris Sud   (France)

^d AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^e MENOUFIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^f NATIONAL HEPATOLOGY AND TROPICAL MEDICINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Egypt)

^g INSERM   (France)

^h Minia University   (Egypt)

ⁱ Universite Paris Sud   (France)

^j Bioinformatique et Chimie Moléculaire   (France)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; GENETIC DISTANCE; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; RISK FACTOR; TOOTH EXTRACTION; TOOTH FILLING; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; DNA, VIRAL; EGYPT; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYLOGENY; RISK FACTORS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; VIRAL NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEINS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899784873     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0086098     Document Type: Article

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