Quantitative Analysis of Hepatitis C Virus in Peripheral Blood and Liver: Replication Detected Only in Liver

Avoiding false positives with PCR

1989 • 3,564 citations

The Prevalence of Hepatitis C Virus Infection in the United States, 1988 through 1994

1999 • 3,083 citations

Binding of Hepatitis C Virus to CD81

1998 • 2,042 citations

A Role for Hepatitis C Virus Infection in Type II Cryoglobulinemia

1992 • 1,302 citations

Epidemiology of Hepatitis C: Geographic Differences and Temporal Trends

2000 • 1,003 citations

The LY‐1B Cell Lineage

1986 • 603 citations

A functional ribonucleoprotein complex forms around the 5′ end of poliovirus RNA

1990 • 494 citations

Rheumatoid Factor Secretion from Human Leu-1 ⁺ B Cells

1987 • 442 citations

Infection of peripheral mononuclear blood cells by hepatitis C virus

1992 • 442 citations

Hepatitis C Virus Infection in Patients with B-Cell Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma

1997 • 399 citations

Low-grade malignant lymphoma, hepatitis C virus infection, and mixed cryoglobulinemia

1994 • 325 citations

In Vivo Tropism of Hepatitis C Virus Genomic Sequences in Hematopoietic Cells: Influence of Viral Load, Viral Genotype, and Cell Phenotype

1998 • 265 citations

Lack of detection of negative-strand hepatitis C virus RNA in peripheral blood mononuclear cells and other extrahepatic tissues by the highly strand-specific rTth reverse transcriptase PCR

1995 • 258 citations

Peripheral blood leukocytes serve as a possible extrahepatic site for hepatitis C virus replication

1993 • 240 citations

Development and function of B-1 cells

2000 • 229 citations

Detection of Replicative Form of Hepatitis C Virus RNA in Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells

1992 • 184 citations

Hepatitis C Virus Is Detected in a Monocyte/Macrophage Subpopulation of Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells of Infected Patients

1992 • 183 citations

Improved method for detecting poliovirus negative strands used to demonstrate specificity of positive-strand encapsidation and the ratio of positive to negative strands in infected cells

1991 • 168 citations

Lack of evidence for hepatitis G virus replication in the livers of patients coinfected with hepatitis C and G viruses

1997 • 132 citations

The etiology and pathophysiology of mixed cryoglobulinemia secondary to hepatitis C virus infection

1997 • 132 citations

Low level or absent in vivo replication of hepatitis C virus and hepatitis G virus/GB virus C in peripheral blood mononuclear cells.

1998 • 110 citations

Replication of hepatitis C virus in peripheral blood mononuclear cells

1992 • 93 citations

Hepatitis C Virus Quasispecies in Patients Infected with HIV-1: Correlation with Extrahepatic Viral Replication

1998 • 82 citations

Hepatitis C virus negative strand RNA is not detected in peripheral blood mononuclear cells and viral sequences are identical to those in serum: a case against extrahepatic replication.

1997 • 79 citations

The Presence of Active Hepatitis C Virus Replication in Lymphoid Tissue in Patients Coinfected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1

1998 • 72 citations

Detection of Hepatitis G Virus Replication Sites by Using Highly Strand-Specific Tth-Based Reverse Transcriptase PCR

1998 • 68 citations

DETECTION OF HEPATITIS C VIRUS REPLICATION IN PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELLS AFTER ORTHOTOPIC LIVER TRANSPLANTATION

1998 • 47 citations

Expansion of peripheral blood CD5+ B cells is associated with mild disease in chronic hepatitis C virus infection

2000 • 47 citations

Direct detection of hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA from whole blood, and comparison with HCV RNA in plasma and peripheral blood mononuclear cells

1995 • 45 citations

Hepatitis C virus detection by single-round PCR specific for the terminal 3' noncoding region

1996 • 20 citations

Detection and quantitation of hepatitis C virus RNA in serum using the polymerase chain reaction and a colorimetric enzymatic detection system

1994 • 14 citations

Activation of Epstein-Barr virus in latently infected cell lines

1988 • 5 citations