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Genetic recombination of the hepatitis C virus: clinical implications.
Journal of viral hepatitis - 1 Feb 2011
Morel V, Fournier C, François C, Brochot E, Helle F, Duverlie G, Castelain S
Abstract excerpt
Genetic recombination is a well-known feature of RNA viruses that plays a significant role in their evolution. Although recombination is well documented for Flaviviridae family viruses, the first natural recombinant strain of hepatitis C virus (HCV) was identified as recently as 2002. Since then, a few other natural inter-genotypic, intra-genotypic and intra-subtype recombinant HCV strains have been described....
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