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Differences in HCV antibody patterns in haemodialysis patients infected with the same virus isolate.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Apr 2001
de Oliveira J M, Rispeter K, Viazov S, Saback F L, Roggendorf M, Yoshida C F
Abstract excerpt
Eight cases of de novo hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in a haemodialysis unit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, were retrospectively studied. HCV viraemia was demonstrated by RT nested PCR in seven of the seroconverters. Genotyping showed that six patients were infected with a genotype 1b strain and one with a genotype 1a strain. A phylogenetic analysis of nucleotide sequences of the HCV core region revealed that...
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