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Accurate representation of the hepatitis C virus quasispecies in 5.2-kilobase amplicons.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Sept 2004
Liu Zhi, Netski Dale M, Mao Qing, Laeyendecker Oliver, Ticehurst John R, Wang Xiao-Hong, Thomas David L, Ray Stuart C
Abstract excerpt
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) exists as a swarm of genetically distinct but related variants, or a quasispecies, whose complexity and sequence evolution are critical to studies of viral pathogenesis. Because most studies of the HCV quasispecies have focused on a relatively small genomic segment, the first hypervariable region of the E2 gene, it is possible that viral complexity is occasionally underestimated (due to...
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