Article
Analysis of the hepatitis C virus genome in patients with anti-LKM-1 autoantibodies.
Journal of hepatology - 1 Aug 1994
Gerotto M, Pontisso P, Giostra F, Francesconi R, Muratori L, Ballardini G, Lenzi M, Tisminetzky S, Bianchi F B, Baralle F B
Abstract excerpt
Hepatitis C virus genotypes have been characterized in 22 patients with anti-LKM-1 positive chronic hepatitis C. Following the Simmonds classification, 77% of patients were infected by hepatitis C virus genotype 1, 18% by genotype 2 and 5% by genotype 3, thus excluding the association of the auto...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Aged
- Autoantibodies
- Autoimmune Diseases
- Base Sequence
- Biopsy
- DNA, Viral
- Female
- Genome, Viral
- Genotype
- Hepacivirus
- Hepatitis C
- Humans
- Liver
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Molecular Sequence Data
