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Liver transplantation with hepatitis C virus-infected graft: interaction between donor and recipient viral strains.
Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) - 1 Jul 2003
Fan Xiaofeng, Lang Dorothy M, Xu Yanjuan, Lyra Andre C, Yusim Karina, Everhart James E, Korber Bette T M, Perelson Alan S, Di Bisceglie Adrian M
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Superinfection of different viral strains within a single host provides an opportunity for studying host-virus and virus-virus interactions, including viral interference and genetic recombination, which cannot be studied in infections with single viral strains. Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a positive single-strand RNA virus that establishes persistent infection in as many as 85% of infected individuals. However,...
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