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Correlates of hepatitis C viral clustering among people who inject drugs in Baltimore.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Jan 2020
Hackman Jada, Falade-Nwulia Oluwaseun, Patel Eshan U, Mehta Shruti H, Kirk Gregory D, Astemborski Jacquie, Ray Stuart C, Thomas David L, Laeyendecker Oliver
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This study examines correlates of hepatitis C virus (HCV) genetic clustering among community-recruited people who inject drugs enrolled in the AIDS Linked to the IntraVenous Experience cohort in Baltimore between 1988 and 1989. HCV RNA was extracted and the core/envelope-1 region was sequenced. Clusters were identified from maximum likelihood trees with 1000 bootstrap replicates using a 70% aLRT and a 4%...
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