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Evidence of intratypic recombination in natural populations of hepatitis C virus.
The Journal of general virology - 1 Jan 2004
Colina Rodney, Casane Didier, Vasquez Silvia, García-Aguirre Laura, Chunga Ausberto, Romero Héctor, Khan Baldip, Cristina Juan
Abstract excerpt
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) has high genomic variability and, since its discovery, at least six different types and an increasing number of subtypes have been reported. Genotype 1 is the most prevalent genotype found in South America. In the present study, three different genomic regions (5'UTR, core and NS5B) of four HCV strains isolated from Peruvian patients were sequenced in order to investigate the congruence of...
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