Quantification of C4d deposition and hepatitis C virus RNA in tissue in cases of graft rejection and hepatitis C recurrence after liver transplantation.

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Published in Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz on February 13, 2015

Authors

Alice Tung Wan Song1, Evandro Sobroza de Mello2, Venâncio Avancini Ferreira Alves2, Norma de Paula Cavalheiro3, Carlos Eduardo Melo3, Patricia Rodrigues Bonazzi1, Fatima Mitiko Tengan3, Maristela Pinheiro Freire4, Antonio Alci Barone3, Luiz Augusto Carneiro D'Albuquerque1, Edson Abdala1

Author Affiliations

1: Divisão de Transplante de Fígado e Órgãos do Aparelho Digestivo, Universidade de São Paulo.
2: Departamento de Patologia, Universidade de São Paulo.
3: Laboratório de Hepatites Virais - LIM 47, Universidade de São Paulo.
4: Hospital das Clínicas, Universidade de São Paulo, SP, Brasil.

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