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Transmission dynamics of hepatitis C virus among intra venous drug users in the border state of Manipur, India.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Jun 2014
Saha Kallol, Firdaus Rushna, Biswas Aritra, Mukherjee Anirban, Sarkar Kamalesh, Chakrabarti Sekhar, Sadhukhan Provash Chandra
Abstract excerpt
Intra venous drug users (IVDUs) are at high risk for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection owing to their high rate of drug abuses. The north-eastern part of India has a high prevalence of IVDUs with Manipur being the worst hit state. The aim of the study was to document the molecular epidemiology, the patterns of HCV transmission, genomic variation and recombination events within HCV genome among IVDUs of Manipur,...
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