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Hepatitis C virus (HCV) 5'NC sequence variants and their association with hepatitis C risk groups.
Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology - 1 Apr 2005
Krekulova Laura, Rehak Vratislav, Riley Lee W
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Genotype distribution of hepatitis C virus (HCV) is relatively uniform in Prague, Czech Republic. Unlike the other developed countries where HCV genotype 3 is increasingly associated with injection drug users (IDU), subtype 1b remains the most prevalent HCV subtype in Prague, regardless of risk factors. OBJECTIVE: We wished to determine if subtype 1b strains could be further differentiated by...
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