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Comparison of hepatitis C virus genotyping by 5' noncoding region- and core-based reverse transcriptase PCR assay with sequencing and use of the assay for determining subtype distribution in India.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Nov 2003
Lole Kavita S, Jha Jyotsna A, Shrotri Sandhya P, Tandon Badri N, Prasad V G Mohan, Arankalle Vidya A
Abstract excerpt
Phylogenetic analysis of the sequences of the 5' noncoding regions (5'NCR) of 149 samples from hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA-positive chronic carriers representing northern, southern, eastern, and western India showed that type 3 and type 1 are the predominant genotypes circulating in India, with an overall prevalence of 53.69 and 38.25%, respectively. Type 4 viruses (6.04%) were seen only in southern India....
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