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Distribution of hepatitis C virus genotypes in patients with chronic hepatitis C infection in India.
The Indian journal of medical research - 1 Apr 2004
Singh Sompal, Malhotra Veena, Sarin Shiv Kumar
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BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES: Hepatitis C virus (HCV), an important cause of chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma, shows a considerable genetic heterogeneity among hepatitis C virus isolates from all over the world. At least six main groups of sequence variants are recognized. The natural history of disease and response to treatment may be related to the genotype of HCV in a particular patient....
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