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Hepatitis C virus genotype distribution varies by underlying disease status among patients in the same geographic region: a retrospective multicenter study.
Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology - 1 Jul 2012
Torres Harrys A, Nevah Moises I, Barnett Ben J, Mahale Parag, Kontoyiannis Dimitrios P, Hassan Manal M, Raad Issam I
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a known carcinogen with considerable genetic heterogeneity: six different genotypes have been identified. HCV genotype distribution varies from country to country. In the United States, the most prevalent genotypes are 1a, and 1b followed by genotypes 2, and 3. OBJECTIVES: To examine whether the distribution of HCV genotypes differed by cancer status among patients in the...
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