Discovery of the hepatitis C virus

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After nearly 6 years of intensive investigations between 1982 and 1988 in my laboratory at Chiron corporation, in which numerous molecular biological methods were used to investigate the viral aetiology of parenterally transmitted non-A, non-B viral hepatitis (NANBH), a single cDNA clone (5-1-1) was isolated that was shown to be derived from a new flavi-like virus, termed the hepatitis C virus (HCV). After...

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