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Dynamics of defective hepatitis C virus clones in reinfected liver grafts in liver transplant recipients: ultradeep sequencing analysis.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Nov 2013
Ohtsuru Shigeru, Ueda Yoshihide, Marusawa Hiroyuki, Inuzuka Tadashi, Nishijima Norihiro, Nasu Akihiro, Shimizu Kazuharu, Koike Kaoru, Uemoto Shinji, Chiba Tsutomu
Abstract excerpt
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) reinfects liver allografts in transplant recipients by replicating immediately after transplantation, causing a rapid increase in blood serum HCV RNA levels. We evaluated dynamic changes in the viral genetic complexity after HCV reinfection of the graft liver; we also identified the characteristics of replicating HCV clones using a massively parallel ultradeep sequencing technique to...
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