Article
[Molecular epidemiology of chronic hepatitis C (HCV) virus].
Przeglad epidemiologiczny - 1 Jan 2004
Nitkiewicz Jadwiga
Abstract excerpt
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a major etiologic causative agent of chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis with its attendant risks of hepatocellular carcinoma. Efforts to isolate the virus by standard immunologic and virologic techniques were unsuccessful and HCV was finally identified by direct cloning and sequencing of its genome. Although the virus was identified 15 years ago, its pathogenesis and replication are not fully...
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