Sequence diversity of hepatitis C virus: implications for immune control and therapy.

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With approximately 3% of the world's population (170 million people) infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV), the WHO has declared HCV a global health problem. Upon acute infection about 50%-80% of subjects develop chronic hepatitis with viral persistence being at risk to develop liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. One characteristic of HCV is its enormous sequence diversity, which represents a...

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