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Chronic hepatitis C infection: influence of the viral load, genotypes, and GBV-C/HGV coinfection on the severity of the disease in a Brazilian population.
Journal of medical virology - 1 May 2002
Pereira Leila M M B, Spinelli Victorino, Ximenes Ricardo A, Cavalcanti Maria S, Melo Raul, Jucá Norma, Mizokami Masashi, McFarlane Ian G
Abstract excerpt
The distributions of the different genotypes of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) and GBV-C virus (GBV-C/HGV) vary geographically and information worldwide is still incomplete. In particular, there are few data on the distribution of genotypes (and their relationship to the severity of liver disease) in South America. Findings are described in 114 consecutive patients from Northeast Brazil (median age 52 years, range...
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