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Intra-host diversity and evolution of hepatitis C virus endemic to Côte d'Ivoire.
Journal of medical virology - 1 May 2014
Forbi Joseph C, Campo David S, Purdy Michael A, Dimitrova Zoya E, Skums Pavel, Xia Guo-liang, Punkova Lili T, Ganova-Raeva Lilia M, Vaughan Gilberto, Ben-Ayed Yousr, Switzer William M, Khudyakov Yury E
Abstract excerpt
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection presents an important, but underappreciated public health problem in Africa. In Côte d'Ivoire, very little is known about the molecular dynamics of HCV infection. Plasma samples (n = 608) from pregnant women collected in 1995 from Côte d'Ivoire were analyzed in this study. Only 18 specimens (∼3%) were found to be HCV PCR-positive. Phylogenetic analysis of the HCV NS5b sequences...
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