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Evolution of viral quasispecies in interferon-treated patients with chronic hepatitis C virus infection.
Journal of hepatology - 1 Oct 1999
Hassoba H M, Bzowej N, Berenguer M, Kim M, Zhou S, Phung Y, Grant R, Pessoa M G, Wright T L
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND/AIMS: To evaluate whether interferon treatment failure/relapse is related to changes in hepatitis C virus quasispecies complexity (number of variants) or diversity (genetic relatedness of variants). METHODS: We analyzed hypervariable region heterogeneity in hepatitis C virus-infected patients by heteroduplex mobility assay and by phylogenetic analysis of sequenced clones. Sera from 11 patients were...
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