Article
A new type of hepatitis C virus in patients in Thailand.
Biochemical and biophysical research communications - 28 Feb 1992
Mori S, Kato N, Yagyu A, Tanaka T, Ikeda Y, Petchclai B, Chiewsilp P, Kurimura T, Shimotohno K
Abstract excerpt
Partial nucleotide sequences in the tentative NS5 region of the hepatitis C viral genome obtained from patients with chronic hepatitis in Thailand were analyzed by reverse transcription followed by the polymerase chain reaction. Of ten samples studied, four showed low homologies to any known type of HCV: the homologies of the nucleotide sequences of these clones with HCV-J, -US, -K2a and -K2b were 66.5-69.1%,...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Base Sequence
- Genes, Viral
- Genetic Variation
- Hepacivirus
- Hepatitis, Viral, Human
- Humans
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
- Thailand
