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Age trend in hepatitis C virus genotype distribution as seen in a Brussels teaching hospital.
Acta clinica Belgica - 1 Jan 2000
de Moreau de Gerbehaye A I, Bodéus M, Goubau P
Abstract excerpt
The hepatitis C virus genotype distribution was studied among age groups in 501 referred patients with chronic hepatitis C by INNO-LiPA HCV II (Innogenetics, Belgium). Ten patients had coinfection with several genotypes. Two hundred seventy of 491 singly infected individuals (57%) had 1b, 66 (13.4%) 3a, 57 (11.6%) 1a. HCV subtype 1b was predominant but its prevalence increased with age (76.5% of patients born in...
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