Hepatitis C virus population analysis of a single-source nosocomial outbreak reveals an inverse correlation between viral load and quasispecies complexity

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 85, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 3619-3626

  Mas, Antonio ^a   Ulloa, Encarna ^a   Bruguera, Miguel ^b   Furčić, Ivana ^b,e   Garriga, Damià ^a,f   Fábregas, Silvia ^c   Andreu, David ^a   Saiz, Juan Carlos ^d   Díez, Juana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

^c Figueres Hospital   (Spain)

^d INIA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^f INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIA MOLECULAR DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; INTERFERON; RIBAVIRIN;

ARTICLE; EPIDEMIC; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS LOAD;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HEPACIVIRUS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; VIRAL LOAD;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

EID: 9944246458     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.80500-0     Document Type: Article

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