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A clustering phenomenon among HCV-1a strains among patients coinfected with HIV from Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Apr 2012
Bolcic Federico, Laufer Natalia, Trinchero Juan, Jones Leandro R, Quarleri Jorge
Abstract excerpt
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) share the same transmission routes which lead to high coinfection rates. Among HIV-infected individuals such rates reached 21% in Argentina, being HCV-1a the most predominant subtype. In this work, 25 HCV subtype 1a (HCV-1a) strains from Argentinean patients coinfected with HIV were studied based on E2 and NS5A sequences. Phylogenetic analyses...
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