Article
Genotype distribution of hepatitis C virus infection in Taiwan.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Sept 1994
Wu J S, Lee H F, Hsiau H L, Lu H Y, Chou W H, Lu C F, Chen H Y, Lee F N, Chen P Y, Tam K M
Abstract excerpt
To investigate the prevalence of genotype distribution of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in Taiwan, genotypes were identified in 122 (36 anti-HCV-positive blood donors, 44 anti-HCV-positive aborigines, 28 hemodialysis patients, and 14 patients with chronic liver diseases) of 280 subjects, using polymerase chain reaction by Okamoto's type-specific primer method. Type II was the dominant (66.7%) type among...
Topics
- Base Sequence
- Chronic Disease
- Genotype
- Hepacivirus
- Hepatitis C
- Humans
- Liver Diseases
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Prevalence
- Renal Dialysis