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Selective transmission of hepatitis C virus genotypes and quasispecies in humans and experimentally infected chimpanzees.
The Journal of general virology - 1 Jan 2006
Nainan Omana V, Lu Ling, Gao Feng-Xiang, Meeks Emory, Robertson Betty H, Margolis Harold S
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This study determined whether selective transmission of hepatitis C virus (HCV) species occurred among human and chimpanzee recipients of contaminated blood products or plasma containing multiple genotypes, subgenotypes and quasispecies. Commercially prepared factor VIII concentrate (lot DO56), produced prior to HCV testing and inactivation, was subsequently found by direct cloning to contain the following...
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