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Hepatitis C virus subtype 3a was introduced in the USSR in the early 1980s.
The Journal of general virology - 1 Aug 2017
Manuylov Victor A, Chub Elena V, Kichatova Vera S, Soboleva Natalya V, Isaeva Olga V, Zamyatnin Andrey A, Netesov Sergey V
Abstract excerpt
A total of 2120 nucleotide sequences of the NS5b region of HCV subtype 3a were analysed, including 310 strains derived from former republics of the USSR (Azerbaijan, Estonia, Lithuania, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan). Among the viral isolates collected from former regions of the Soviet Union, 294 strains formed 3 sustained phylogenetic clusters, with each having a common origin. Phylodynamic analysis...
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