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Sequential bottlenecks drive viral evolution in early acute hepatitis C virus infection.
PLoS pathogens - 1 Sept 2011
Bull Rowena A, Luciani Fabio, McElroy Kerensa, Gaudieri Silvana, Pham Son T, Chopra Abha, Cameron Barbara, Maher Lisa, Dore Gregory J, White Peter A, Lloyd Andrew R
Abstract excerpt
Hepatitis C is a pandemic human RNA virus, which commonly causes chronic infection and liver disease. The characterization of viral populations that successfully initiate infection, and also those that drive progression to chronicity is instrumental for understanding pathogenesis and vaccine design. A comprehensive and longitudinal analysis of the viral population was conducted in four subjects followed from very...
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