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Diversity of genotypes of hepatitis C virus in southern India.
The Journal of general virology - 1 Mar 1995
Valliammai T, Thyagarajan S P, Zuckerman A J, Harrison T J
Abstract excerpt
A second generation assay for antibody to hepatitis C virus (anti-HCV) was used to screen 78 southern Indian individuals with a high risk of infection. RT-PCR targeted at the 5' end untranslated region (5'UTR) of the HCV genome was used to evaluate evidence of viraemia in 32 anti-HCV positive sera. The PCR products amplified from the 5'UTR of the HCV genome from 24 patients were sequenced, revealing the existence...
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