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Comparison of genetic heterogeneity of hepatitis C viral RNA in liver tissue and serum.
The American journal of gastroenterology - 1 May 1999
Fan X, Solomon H, Poulos J E, Neuschwander-Tetri B A, Di Bisceglie A M
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OBJECTIVE: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is known to be heterogeneous and to circulate as a group of closely related quasispecies in individual patients, although hepatic viral genetic characteristics have not been well documented. METHODS: Matched serum and liver samples were tested by reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction amplification and single stranded conformation polymorphism analysis of the...
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