Article
Hepatitis C Virus in mainland China with an emphasis on genotype and subtype distribution.
Virology journal - 23 Feb 2017
Zhang Yu, Chen Li-Min, He Miao
Abstract excerpt
Due to the low fidelity of the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase, Hepatitis C virus (HCV) mutates quite frequently. There are seven genetically divergent genotypes (GTs) distributed in the world, each of which contains several closely related subtypes. The peer-reviewed literatures reporting the prevalence rate of HCV GTs in Chinese hospitalized patients were identified by systematic searching of three electronic...
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