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Distribution of the different genotypes of HCV among patients attending a tertiary care hospital in south India.
Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology - 1 Jan 2003
Raghuraman Sukanya, Shaji R V, Sridharan Gopalan, Radhakrishnan Sujatha, Chandy George, Ramakrishna B S, Abraham Priya
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BACKGROUND: Genotyping of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) and assessment of viral load is important for designing therapeutic strategies and region specific diagnostic assays. OBJECTIVES: To determine the distribution of HCV genotypes among patients attending a tertiary care hospital in south India, and to correlate this with viral load. STUDY DESIGN: Ninety HCV RNA positive patients were recruited for the study. HCV...
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