Article
Hepatitis C serotypes in nonalcoholic and alcoholic patients.
Digestive diseases and sciences - 1 Nov 1997
Sherman K E, Mendenhall C, Thee D L, O'Brien J, Rouster S D
Abstract excerpt
Genotyping of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA can be performed by a variety of methods following polymerase chain reaction amplification of a stable RNA portion of the genome. The gold standard is amplification of the RNA from the NS5 region, followed by direct sequencing and homology comparison....
Topics
- Adult
- Alcoholism
- Disease Progression
- Female
- Genotype
- Hepacivirus
- Hepatitis C, Chronic
- Humans
- Immunoblotting
- Male
- Nucleic Acid Hybridization
- RNA, Viral
- Sequence Analysis, RNA