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Natural intragenotypic and intergenotypic HCV recombinants are rare in southwest China even among patients with multiple exposures.
Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology - 1 Dec 2010
Zhou YouQian, Wang XiaoHong, Hong GuoHu, Tan ZhaoXia, Zhu Yan, Lan Lin, Mao Qing
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Both intragenotypic and intergenotypic hepatitis C virus (HCV) recombinants were recently identified, whereas the frequency of HCV recombinants in circulation in certain parts of the world remains uncertain. OBJECTIVES: To assess the frequency of natural intragenotypic and intergenotypic HCV recombinants in southwest China and that of multitypic HCV infection, which is the prerequisite factor for...
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