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Genotypes of hepatitis C virus (HCV) in liver disease patients in Sri Lanka.
The Southeast Asian journal of tropical medicine and public health - 1 Nov 2008
Senevirathna Dammika, Ranaweera Dinali, Abeysekera Dilshan, Kanakarathana Nalaka, De Silva Dharshan, Abeysundara Sachith, Samaraweera Preminda, Jayasinghe Saroj, Fernandopulle Neil
Abstract excerpt
A total of 460 samples (serum or plasma) were obtained from clinically diagnosed liver disease patients from January 2006 to December 2007 and subjected to reverse transcription--polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) based detection of HCV. Of these, 32 samples (6.9%) were positive for HCV RNA. Samples that were positive for HCV were genotyped with type specific primers. The genotyping assay was validated by DNA...
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