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Hepatitis C virus coinfection and superinfection.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 15 Feb 2007
Blackard Jason T, Sherman Kenneth E
Abstract excerpt
A hallmark of RNA viruses is their extreme genetic diversity. Within an individual, the hepatitis C virus (HCV) exists as a population of distinct but closely related viral variants, termed the "viral quasispecies." These variants may display divergent replicative capacity, cell tropism, immunologic escape, and antiviral-drug resistance. Coinfection with 2 or more distinct HCVs has been frequently documented....
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