Clinical significance of serum hepatitis C virus titers in patients with chronic type C hepatitis

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 506-510

  Kao, Jia Horng ^a   Lai, Ming Yang ^a   Chen, Pei Jer ^a   Hwang, Lih Hwa ^a   Chen, Wendy ^a   Chen, Ding Shinn ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CYTOTOXICITY; DNA DETERMINATION; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIREMIA; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS TRANSFORMATION;

EID: 84984539795     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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