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Spreading of hepatitis C virus subtypes 1a and 1b through the central region of Argentina.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Aug 2014
Culasso Andrés Carlos Alberto, Farías Adrián, Di Lello Federico Alejandro, Golemba Marcelo Darío, Ré Viviana, Barbini Luciana, Campos Rodolfo
Abstract excerpt
The recent history of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) subtypes 1a and 1b in the central region of Argentina is hypothesized by phylogeographic reconstruction using coalescent based Bayesian analyses. Direct partial E2 sequences from HCV 1a and 1b infected patients attending different health-care centers of the country were analyzed. The inferred date of the most recent common ancestor (tMRCA) for HCV-1a was: 1962...
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