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Genotyping of hepatitis C virus-comparison of three assays.
Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology - 1 Aug 2003
Haushofer Alexander C, Berg Jörg, Hauer René, Trubert-Exinger Doris, Stekel Herbert G, Kessler Harald H
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Genotyping of hepatitis C virus (HCV) is clinically relevant to epidemiology, prognosis, and therapeutical management of HCV infection. OBJECTIVES: Accuracy and specificity of three assays for HCV genotyping/subtyping were determined. The TruGene HCV 5'NC Genotyping Kit (TruGene), which is a direct sequencing test and two assays based on reversed hybridization, Inno-LiPA HCV II assay and ViennaLab HCV...
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