Article
Typing hepatitis C virus by polymerase chain reaction with type-specific primers: application to clinical surveys and tracing infectious sources.
The Journal of general virology - 1 Mar 1992
Okamoto H, Sugiyama Y, Okada S, Kurai K, Akahane Y, Sugai Y, Tanaka T, Sato K, Tsuda F, Miyakawa Y
Abstract excerpt
Based on variation in nucleotide sequence within restricted regions in the putative C (core) gene of hepatitis C virus (HCV), four groups of HCV have been postulated in a panel of 44 HCV isolates. They were provisionally designated types I, II, III and IV. A method for typing HCV was developed, d...
Topics
- Base Sequence
- Blood Donors
- DNA, Antisense
- DNA, Single-Stranded
- Female
- Genetic Variation
- Hemophilia A
- Hepacivirus
- Hepatitis C
- Humans
- Maternal-Fetal Exchange
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Pregnancy
- Viral Core Proteins