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Evidence of two major genotypes of hepatitis C virus in France and close relatedness of the predominant one with the prototype virus.
Journal of hepatology - 1 Jan 1991
Li J S, Tong S P, Vitvitski L, Lepot D, Trépo C
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Hepatitis C virus (HCV) cDNA sequence in the nonstructural region NS3 was amplified from the serum of 66% French non-A, non-B hepatitis patients by the nested polymerase chain reaction. A 407 base-pair sequence was determined from four such cases, which revealed the presence of two different virus genotypes F1 (three cases) and F2 (one case) with 19-20% sequence divergence. F1 showed close homology (97.5%) to the...
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