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Genetic diversity of hepatitis C virus quasispecies in chronic renal failure patients in Midwest Brazil.
Archives of virology - 1 Aug 2014
de Amorim Regina Maria Santos, Coelho Alexandre, Lampe Elisabeth, Raiol Tainá, Martins Regina Maria Bringel
Abstract excerpt
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) quasispecies constitute a dynamic population in a continuous process of variation and selection. To investigate effect of the immune system on the genetic variability of HCV, we compared the hypervariable region 1 (HVR1) of immunosuppressed patients with chronic renal failure (CRF group) to immunocompetent patients with HCV chronic infection (control group). The HVR1 from ten samples of...
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