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    Journal of Medical Virology: Volume 54, Issue 4

    237-327
    April 1998
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Epidemiological study and genetic analysis of GB virus C infection in general population from an area endemic for hepatitis C

XH. Zhang,  H. Shinzawa,  L. Shao,  M. Ishibashi,  QH. Jiang,  K. Saito,  H. Misawa,  H. Togashi,  T. Takahashi, 
  • Pages: 237-242
  • First Published: 07 December 1998
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Prevalence of hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and GB virus C/hepatitis G virus infections in liver disease patients and inhabitants in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam

Shinichi Kakumu,  Katsuhiko Sato,  Takayuki Morishita,  Trinh Kim Anh,  Nguyen Huu Binh,  Banh Vu Dien,  Do Huu Chinh,  Nguyen Huu Phuc,  Nguyen Van Thinh,  Le Tuyet Trinh,  Naohiko Yamamoto,  Haruhisa Nakao,  Shin Isomura, 
  • Pages: 243-248
  • First Published: 07 December 1998
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Hepatitis B virus DNA is frequently found in liver biopsy samples from hepatitis C virus-infected chronic hepatitis patients

Katsuro Koike,  Midori Kobayashi,  Morio Gondo,  Izumi Hayashi,  Toshiaki Osuga,  Shinako Takada, 
  • Pages: 249-255
  • First Published: 07 December 1998
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Genetic complexity of the hypervariable region 1 (HVR1) of hepatitis C virus (HCV): Influence on the characteristics of the infection and responses to interferon alfa therapy in patients with chronic hepatitis C

Jean-Michel Pawlotsky,  Muriel Pellerin,  Magali Bouvier,  Françoise Roudot-Thoraval,  Georgios Germanidis,  Anne Bastie,  Françoise Darthuy,  Jocelyne Rémiré,  Claude-James Soussy,  Daniel Dhumeaux, 
  • Pages: 256-264
  • First Published: 07 December 1998
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Quantitation of hepatitis C virus in liver and peripheral blood mononuclear cells from patients with chronic hepatitis C virus infection

Julio Martín,  Sonia Navas,  Juan Antonio Quiroga,  Giuseppe Colucci,  Margarita Pardo,  Vicente Carreño, 
  • Pages: 265-270
  • First Published: 07 December 1998
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Predominance of HCV type 2a in saliva from intravenous drug users

K. M. Roy,  J. Bagg,  B. McCarron,  T. Good,  S. Cameron,  A. Pithie, 
  • Pages: 271-275
  • First Published: 07 December 1998
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Serological evidence of SV40 infections in HIV-infected and HIV-negative adults

Sanjeeda Jafar,  Maria Rodriguez-Barradas,  David Y. Graham,  Janet S. Butel, 
  • Pages: 276-284
  • First Published: 07 December 1998
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Evaluation of an expanded two-ELISA approach for confirmation of reactive serum samples in an HIV-screening programme for pregnant women

G. J. J. Van Doornum,  M. Buimer,  E. Gobbers,  P. J. Bindels,  R. A. Coutinho, 
  • Pages: 285-290
  • First Published: 07 December 1998
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Molecular epidemiology of adenovirus type 7 in Israel: Identification of two new genome types, Ad7k and Ad7d2

Roberto Azar,  Noemi Varsano,  Fernando Mileguir,  Ella Mendelson, 
  • Pages: 291-299
  • First Published: 07 December 1998
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Consistent polymerse chain reaction–single-strand conformation polymorphism pattern of human herpesvirus-8 in the course of classical Kaposi's sarcoma assumes its clonal origin

Attila Juhász,  Eva Remenyik,  Krisztina Szarka,  György Veress,  János Hunyadi,  Lajos Gergely, 
  • Pages: 300-304
  • First Published: 07 December 1998
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Homotypic and heterotypic IgG and IgM antibody responses in adults infected with small round structured viruses

A. D. Hale,  D. C. Lewis,  X. Jiang,  D. W. G. Brown, 
  • Pages: 305-312
  • First Published: 07 December 1998
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Transport of viruses through fetal membranes: An in vitro model of perinatal transmission

K. Rokos,  H. Wang,  J. Seeger,  A. Schäfer,  G. Pauli, 
  • Pages: 313-319
  • First Published: 07 December 1998
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Detection of respiratory syncytial virus RNA in blood of neonates by polymerase chain reaction

Angela Rohwedder,  Oliver Keminer,  Johannes Forster,  Katja Schneider,  Elisabeth Schneider,  Hermann Werchau, 
  • Pages: 320-327
  • First Published: 07 December 1998