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High proportion of hepatitis C virus genotypes 1 and 3 in a large cohort of patients from Southern Brazil.
Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz - 1 Nov 2007
Silva Cláudia Maria Dornelles da, Costi Cintia, Krug Luciano Percival, Ramos Ana Beatris, Grandi Tarciana, Gandolfi Vitório Luiz, Menezes Maria Elizabeth, Ocampos Maristela, Niel Christian, Rossetti Maria Lucia Rosa
Abstract excerpt
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) isolates have been divided into six genotypes (1 to 6). The duration of hepatitis C standard treatment is 48 weeks for patients infected with HCV genotype 1 vs 24 weeks for those infected with genotypes 2 and 3. A total of 1544 HCV isolates from chronic patients living in the southern Brazilian states of Rio Grande do Sul (RS, n=627) and Santa Catarina (SC, n=917) were genotyped by...
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