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Use of a commercially available line probe assay for genotyping of hepatitis C virus 5a strains.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Dec 2005
Verbeeck Jannick, Maes Piet, Wollants Elke, Van der Merwe Schalk, Song Ernie, Nevens Frederik, Van Ranst Marc
Abstract excerpt
To validate a commercially available line probe assay for samples containing the infrequently found hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotype 5a, we sequenced a 511-nucleotide fragment of the NS4b region of Belgian and South African HCV genotype 5a samples. Phylogenetic analysis of the sequence data was performed. For the 77 HCV genotype 5a samples collected, there was 100% concordance between the genotype assignment by...
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