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Recombination in hepatitis C virus.
Viruses - 1 Oct 2011
González-Candelas Fernando, López-Labrador F Xavier, Bracho María Alma
Abstract excerpt
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a Flavivirus with a positive-sense, single-stranded RNA genome of about 9,600 nucleotides. It is a major cause of liver disease, infecting almost 200 million people all over the world. Similarly to most RNA viruses, HCV displays very high levels of genetic diversity which have been used to differentiate six major genotypes and about 80 subtypes. Although the different genotypes and...
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