The aim of this work was to study the presence of the hepatitis GB virus type C (HGBV-C) in liver and serum samples of children with chronic viral hepatitis, the time course of changes in viral RNA, and the possible acquisition routes of infection. Frozen serum and liver samples from 58 children wit
The Incidence and Significance of Pattern-Recognition Receptors in Chronic Viral Hepatitis Types B and C in Man
✍ Scribed by Iwona Mozer-Lisewska; Jan Sikora; Arleta Kowala-Piaskowska; Mariusz Kaczmarek; Grzegorz Dworacki; Jan Żeromski
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 243 KB
- Volume
- 58
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0004-069X
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