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Improvement of hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotype determination with the new version of the INNO-LiPA HCV assay.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Apr 2007
Bouchardeau Françoise, Cantaloube Jean François, Chevaliez Stéphane, Portal Christine, Razer Annie, Lefrère Jean-Jacques, Pawlotsky Jean Michel, De Micco Philippe, Laperche Syria
Abstract excerpt
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) isolates have been classified into six main genotypes. Genotyping methods, and especially the widely used line probe assay (LiPA), are frequently based on the 5'-untranslated region (5'UTR). However, this region is not appropriate for discriminating HCV strains at the subtype level and for distinguishing many genotype 6 samples from genotype 1. We investigated the capacity of a novel LiPA...
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