Article
Distribution of HCV genotypes among risk groups in Serbia.
European journal of epidemiology - 1 Jan 2000
Stamenkovic G, Zerjav S, Velickovic Z M, Krtolica K, Samardzija V L, Jemuovic L, Nozic D, Dimitrijevic B
Abstract excerpt
Blood samples from 190 patients that were anti-hepatitis C virus (HCV) positive were genotyped and 165 were found to contain HCV-RNA. Genotyping was performed by PCR based on type-specific primers (117 isolates) and LiPA test (48 isolates) and verifying by sequencing. In Serbia, the most frequent genotype was 1b (49.1%), followed by genotype 3 (21.2%) and genotype 1a (8.5%). The frequency of genotypes 2 and 4 was...
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