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Genotypes of hepatitis C virus in relapsed and non-respondent patients and their response to anti-viral therapy in district Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhawa, Pakistan.
Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP - 1 Jan 2015
Akhtar Noreen, Bilal Muhammad, Rizwan Muhammad, Khan Muhammad Asif, Khan Aurangzeb
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Hepatitis C is a blood-borne infectious disease of liver, caused by a small enveloped, positive-single stranded RNA virus, called the hepatitis C virus (HCV). HCV belongs to the Flaviviridae family and has 6 genotypes and more than 100 subtypes. It is estimated that 185 million people are infected with HCV worldwide and 5% of these are in Pakistan. The study was designed to evaluate different genotypes of HCV...
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