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Prevalence and genotypes of hepatitis G virus among hemodialysis patients in Eastern Anatolia, Turkey.
Medical principles and practice : international journal of the Kuwait University, Health Science Centre - 1 Jan 2000
Ozdarendeli Aykut, Toroman Zulal A, Kalkan Ahmet, Kilic Suleyman S, Ozden Mehmet, Doymaz Mehmet Z
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OBJECTIVES: To study the prevalence and genotype distribution of hepatitis G virus (HGV) in hemodialysis patients in East Anatolia, Turkey. SUBJECTS AND MATERIALS: Eighty-nine hemodialysis patients and 30 healthy individuals were analyzed by using reverse-transcriptase nested polymerase chain reaction with primers specific for 5' untranslated region. HGV genotyping was performed by PCR and three randomly selected...
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