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Epidemic history of major genotypes of hepatitis C virus in Uruguay.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Jun 2015
Castells M, Bello G, Ifrán S, Pereyra S, Boschi S, Uriarte R, Cristina J, Colina R
Abstract excerpt
Worldwide, more than 170 million people are chronically infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV) and every year die more than 350,000 people from HCV-related liver diseases. Recently, HCV was reclassified into seven major genotypes and 67 subtypes. Some subtypes as 1a, 1b and 3a, have become epidemic as a result of the new parenteral transmission routes and are responsible for most HCV infections in Western...
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