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Identification and characterization of a natural inter-genotypic (2b/1b) recombinant hepatitis C virus in Japan.
Archives of virology - 1 Sept 2011
Yokoyama Koji, Takahashi Masaharu, Nishizawa Tsutomu, Nagashima Shigeo, Jirintai Suljid, Yotsumoto Shigeru, Okamoto Hiroaki, Momoi Mariko Y
Abstract excerpt
A hepatitis C virus (HCV) strain (HC10-0804) recovered from a 12-year-old Japanese female with chronic hepatitis C segregated into discordant genotypes, 2b and 1b, in the 5'UTR/core and NS5B regions, respectively, thus suggesting an inter-genotypic recombination. The HC10-0804 isolate had a genomic length of 9,423 nucleotides (nt), excluding the poly(U) tract at the 3' terminus, and encoded a single open reading...
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