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Evolutionary trends of the first hypervariable region of the hepatitis C virus E2 protein in individuals with differing liver disease severity.
The Journal of general virology - 1 Jan 2002
Curran Rebecca, Jameson Claire L, Craggs Joanna K, Grabowska Anna M, Thomson Brian J, Robins Adrian, Irving William L, Ball Jonathan K
Abstract excerpt
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) exists as a complex swarm of genetically related viruses known as a quasispecies. Recent work has shown that quasispecies complexity and evolutionary rates are associated with the outcome of acute infection. Knowledge of how the virus population evolves at different stages of chronic infection is less clear. We have studied rates of evolution of the first hypervariable region (HVR1) of the...
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