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Genotypes of hepatitis C virus circulating in Tunisia.
Epidemiology and infection - 1 Jun 2003
Djebbi A, Triki H, Bahri O, Cheikh I, Sadraoui A, Ben Ammar A, Dellagi K
Abstract excerpt
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) isolates from 93 patients living in Tunisia, including 16 haemophiliacs, were genotyped by INNO LiPA and partial sequencing of the 5' untranslated region of the viral genome. In non-haemophiliacs, subtype 1b was largely predominant (79%), types 1a, 2a, 2b, 3a and 4a occurred much less frequently at 5, 7, 3, 3 and 1% of cases, respectively. In the group of haemophiliacs, a co-dominance...
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