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Detection and genotyping of GBV-C/HGV variants in China.
Virus research - 1 Mar 2001
Lu L, Ng M H, Zhou B, Luo H, Nakano T, Robertson B H, Im S W
Abstract excerpt
We detected GBV-C/HGV sequences in the sera from 64 out of a total of 324 subjects in the south of China. In agreement with findings of others, we noted an especially high rate of infection among intravenous drug addicts and patients with chronic hepatitis C virus infection. The detection was achieved by nested PCR to amplify the 5' noncoding region (5'NCR) of the viral genome. Sequence analysis of the resulting...
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