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A natural inter-genotypic (2b/1b) recombinant of hepatitis C virus in the Philippines.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Nov 2006
Kageyama Seiji, Agdamag Dorothy M, Alesna Evelyn T, Leaño Prisca S, Heredia Anna Marie L, Abellanosa-Tac-An Ilya P, Jereza Lourdes D, Tanimoto Tomoaki, Yamamura Jun-ichi, Ichimura Hiroshi
Abstract excerpt
The prevalence study and the characterization of hepatitis C virus (HCV) was carried out in the Philippines and the sequence determination of the 5'-untranslated region (5'-UTR)-Core and the NS5B regions of HCV was carried out in this study. An HCV strain (SE-03-07-1689) collected in Metro Manila, Philippines, belonged to discordant subtypes, 2b and 1b in 5'-UTR-Core and NS5B regions, respectively. The 9.3 kb...
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