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Association of genotypes with viral load and biochemical markers in HCV-infected Sindhi patients.
Brazilian journal of microbiology : [publication of the Brazilian Society for Microbiology] - 1 Jan 2000
Riaz Saba, Bashir Muhammad Faisal, Haider Saleem, Rahid Naeem
Abstract excerpt
The presented study had two objectives. The first was to examine distributions of Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) genotypes in Sindh, Pakistan, where HCV is prevalent. The other was to explore clinically relevant relationships between the genotypes, viral load (measured by real-time polymerase chain reaction assays) and biochemical markers. For this, 1471 HCV-infected patients in six cities in Sindh were recruited and...
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