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Molecular epidemiology of the hepatitis C virus in Western Siberia.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Nov 2005
Shustov A V, Kochneva G V, Sivolobova G F, Grazhdantseva A A, Gavrilova I V, Akinfeeva L A, Rakova I G, Aleshina M V, Bukin V N, Orlovsky V G, Bespalov V S, Robertson B H, Netesov S V
Abstract excerpt
Western Siberia is the region with little information on the prevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, genotypic diversity of HCV isolates and risk factors. A molecular epidemiological survey was conducted to clarify these issues. Four groups of volunteers were included in a cross-sectional study (n = 500 in each group): health care workers; daycare patients from a hospital for drug users, daycare patients...
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