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Construction and characterization of infectious intragenotypic and intergenotypic hepatitis C virus chimeras.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 9 May 2006
Pietschmann Thomas, Kaul Artur, Koutsoudakis George, Shavinskaya Anna, Kallis Stephanie, Steinmann Eike, Abid Karim, Negro Francesco, Dreux Marlene, Cosset Francois-Loic, Bartenschlager Ralf
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Chronic liver disease caused by infection with hepatitis C virus (HCV) is an important global health problem that currently affects 170 million people. A major impediment in HCV research and drug development has been the lack of culture systems supporting virus production. This obstacle was recently overcome by using JFH1-based full-length genomes that allow production of viruses infectious both in vitro and in...
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