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Genotype distribution and comparison of the putative envelope region of hepatitis C virus from Korean patients.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Aug 1995
Kim C J, Shin K S, Kim W Y, Lim D S, Yoon S K, Park Y M, Kim B S, Jang S K, Cho M J
Abstract excerpt
Comparative nucleotide sequence studies of the genomes of hepatitis C virus (HCV) revealed that there are at least 6 different genotypes of HCV. The prevalence of HCV genotypes among the patients with liver diseases in Korea was investigated using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for the NS5 region. In the 75 HCV RNA positive samples, two genotypes, type 1b and type 2a, were the major causative agents which...
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