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At least five related, but distinct, hepatitis C viral genotypes exist.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 1 Aug 1992
Cha T A, Beall E, Irvine B, Kolberg J, Chien D, Kuo G, Urdea M S
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Hepatitis C virus, the major causative agent of blood-borne non-A, non-B hepatitis in the world, has been the subject of considerable nucleic acid sequence analysis. Although all reported hepatitis C sequences from the United States have been represented by the prototype hepatitis C virus type 1 sequence, two groups of variant sequences have been reported in Japan. However, we have noted five distinct, but...
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