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Perinatal transmission and viral evolution of hepatitis C virus quasispecies in infants coinfected with HIV.
Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) - 1 Aug 2004
Pollack Henry, Hou Zhiying, Hughes Austin L, Borkowsky William
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OBJECTIVES: Three HIV/hepatitis C virus (HCV)-coinfected children and the mothers of 2 were studied to examine the nature of perinatal HCV infection in HIV-coinfected infants and to assess the evolution of viral quasispecies thereafter. Sequences of the hypervariable region in the N terminus of the E2/NS1 region (HVR-1) of the children and their mothers were compared. HCV quasispecies changes in the infants were...
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