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Novel genotypes of hepatitis C virus in Thailand.
The Journal of general virology - 1 Sept 1995
Sugiyama K, Kato N, Nakazawa T, Yonemura Y, Phornphutkul K, Kunakorn M, Petchclai B, Shimotohno K
Abstract excerpt
We examined 24 C-type hepatitis specimens from Thailand and detected hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA in all of them by RT-nested PCR for a portion of the HCV 5' non-coding (5' NC) region and a portion of the HCV core region. However, we failed to detect HCV RNA in 11 specimens by RT-nested PCR for a portion in the non-structural protein 5 (NS5) region that has been used commonly for HCV genotyping. We designed a new...
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