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Follow-up of the prevalence of hepatitis C virus genotypes in Spain during a nine-year period (1996-2004).
Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica - 1 Jan 2006
Echevarría José Manuel, León Pilar, Pozo Francisco, Avellón Ana
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BACKGROUND: Recent data suggest that the prevalence of genotype 4 HCV strains among Spanish carriers is increasing. OBJECTIVE: To assess changes in the prevalence of HCV genotypes in Spain during the last nine years. METHODS: HCV RNA was amplified by the polymerase chain reaction from 3161 serum samples from unselected, anti-HCV-positive individuals, and the HCV genotype was identified by a reverse hybridisation...
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