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Analyses of amino acid sequences in hypervariable region-1 of hepatitis C virus (HCV) in sera from chimpanzees infected three times with the same HCV strain.
Journal of medical primatology - 1 Feb 2010
Sugitani M, Nishimura S, Mizuno K, Shikata T
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: To investigate whether or not the same strain of hepatitis C virus (HCV) can twice re-infect the same chimpanzee, we analyzed nucleic and amino acid sequences in HCV hypervariable region-1 (HVR1). Two chimpanzees were inoculated, three times each, with the same HCV strain during the 1983-1991. After each inoculation, chimpanzees developed acute hepatitis C, and then recovered. METHODS: Using sera,...
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