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Evidence of occult HCV genotypes in haemophilic individuals with unapparent HCV mixed infections.
Haemophilia : the official journal of the World Federation of Hemophilia - 1 Jul 2008
Parodi C, Culasso A, Aloisi N, García G, Bastón M, Corti M, Bianco R P, Campos R, Ares B R, Baré P
Abstract excerpt
Individuals with haemophilia who received non heat-treated factor concentrates were likely to undergo multiple exposures to the hepatitis C virus (HCV). Therefore, HCV mixed-genotype infections might be more frequent in these patients than in the general population. Their prevalence is extremely variable in similar groups of patients tested by different assays due to the fact that currently available genotyping...
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