Journal of Hepatology
Volume 50, Issue 4 , Pages 693-704, April 2009

Acute infection with a single hepatitis C virus strain in dialysis patients: Analysis of adaptive immune response and viral variability☆

  • Lukas Weseslindtner

      Affiliations

    • Clinical Institute of Virology, Medical University of Vienna, Kinderspitalgasse 15, A-1095 Vienna, Austria
    • ,
  • Christoph Neumann-Haefelin

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine II, University Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
    • ,
  • Sergei Viazov

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Virology, Essen University Hospital, Essen, Germany
    • ,
  • Anita Haberstroh

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine II, University Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
    • ,
  • Josef Kletzmayr

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine III, Danube Hospital, Vienna, Austria
    • ,
  • Judith H. Aberle

      Affiliations

    • Clinical Institute of Virology, Medical University of Vienna, Kinderspitalgasse 15, A-1095 Vienna, Austria
    • ,
  • Joerg Timm

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Virology, Essen University Hospital, Essen, Germany
    • ,
  • Stefan R. Ross

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Virology, Essen University Hospital, Essen, Germany
    • ,
  • Renate Klauser-Braun

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine III, Danube Hospital, Vienna, Austria
    • ,
  • Thomas F. Baumert

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine II, University Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
    • INSERM Unite 748, Universite Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France
    • ,
  • Michael Roggendorf

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Virology, Essen University Hospital, Essen, Germany
    • ,
  • Robert Thimme

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine II, University Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
    • ,
  • Heidemarie Holzmann

      Affiliations

    • Clinical Institute of Virology, Medical University of Vienna, Kinderspitalgasse 15, A-1095 Vienna, Austria
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +43 1 40 490 79522; fax: +43 1 40 490 97 95.

Received 3 September 2008; received in revised form 6 November 2008; accepted 24 November 2008. published online 27 January 2009.

Associate Editor: V. Barnaba

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☆ The authors declare that they do not have anything to disclose regarding funding from industries or conflict of interest with respect to this manuscript. The underlying research reported in the study was funded by the “Hochschuljubiläumsstiftung” of the city of Vienna, Austria (Project H1802/2006).

PII: S0168-8278(09)00006-3

doi:10.1016/j.jhep.2008.11.023

Journal of Hepatology
Volume 50, Issue 4 , Pages 693-704, April 2009

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