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Five Near Full-Length Hepatitis C Virus Sequences Were Identified from HIV Coinfected Injection Drug Users of China.
AIDS research and human retroviruses - 1 May 2017
Li Fan, Feng Yi, Ni Na, Hu Jing, Ruan Yuhua, Shao Yiming, Ma Liying
Abstract excerpt
HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV) share transmission routes, including contaminated blood transfusion, sexual intercourse, and needle-sharing in injection drug users (IDUs). We obtained five near full-length genome sequences of HCV isolated from five HIV-1-coinfected IDUs in Sichuan and Xinjiang provinces, China. By conducting reconstruction of neighbor-joining phylogenetic tree, our results revealed that the five...
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