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The Phylogeographic and Spatiotemporal Spread of HCV in Pakistani Population.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2016
Ghori Noor-Ul-Huda, Shafique Atif, Hayat Muhammad Qasim, Anjum Sadia
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Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) is the most prevalent human pathogen in Pakistan and is the major cause of liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma in infected patients. It has shifted from being hypo-endemic to being hyper-endemic. There was no information about the origin and evolution of the local variants. Here we use newly developed phyloinformatic methods of sequence analysis to conduct the first comprehensive...
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