Journal of Hepatology
Volume 51, Issue 4 , Pages 628-631 , October 2009

HCV reinfection studies and the door to vaccine development

  • Jason Grebely

      Affiliations

    • National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, The University of New South Wales, 376 Victoria Street, Sydney NSW 2010, Australia
    • ,
  • David L. Thomas

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
    • Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
    • ,
  • Gregory J. Dore

      Affiliations

    • National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, The University of New South Wales, 376 Victoria Street, Sydney NSW 2010, Australia
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +61 2 93850900; fax: +61 2 93850876.

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☆ The authors who have taken part in this study declared that they do not have anything to declare regarding funding from industries or conflict of interest with respect to this manuscript.

PII: S0168-8278(09)00460-7

doi: 10.1016/j.jhep.2009.07.002

Journal of Hepatology
Volume 51, Issue 4 , Pages 628-631 , October 2009

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