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New trends of HCV infection in China revealed by genetic analysis of viral sequences determined from first-time volunteer blood donors.
Journal of viral hepatitis - 1 Jan 2011
Fu Y, Wang Y, Xia W, Pybus O G, Qin W, Lu L, Nelson K
Abstract excerpt
Recently, we studied hepatitis C virus (HCV) sera-prevalence among 559 890 first-time volunteer blood donors in China. From randomly selected 450 anti-HCV positive donors, we detected HCV RNA in 270 donors. In this study, we amplified HCV E1 and/or NS5B sequences from 236 of these donors followed by DNA sequencing and phylogenetic analysis. The results indicate new trends of HCV infection in China. The HCV...
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