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Geographic distribution of hepatitis C virus genotypes in Brazil.
Brazilian journal of medical and biological research = Revista brasileira de pesquisas medicas e biologicas - 1 Jan 2005
Campiotto S, Pinho J R R, Carrilho F J, Da Silva L C, Souto F J D, Spinelli V, Pereira L M M B, Coelho H S M, Silva A O, Fonseca J C, Rosa H, Lacet C M C, Bernardini A P
Abstract excerpt
Brazil is a country of continental dimension with a population of different ethnic backgrounds. Thus, a wide variation in the frequencies of hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotypes is expected to occur. To address this point, 1,688 sequential samples from chronic HCV patients were analyzed. HCV-RNA was amplified by the RT-PCR from blood samples collected from 1995 to 2000 at different laboratories located in different...
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