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Hepatitis C virus (HCV) core serotypes in chronic HCV infection.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Oct 1994
Mondelli M U, Cerino A, Bono F, Cividini A, Maccabruni A, Aricò M, Malfitano A, Barbarini G, Piazza V, Minoli L
Abstract excerpt
Recently, two distinct hepatitis C virus (HCV) serologic types have been identified on the basis of amino acid variations in the core region. The two serologic types can readily discriminate between genotypes I-II-V (serotype 1) and III-IV (serotype 2), according to the Okamoto classification. We compared HCV core serotyping with genotyping with sera from 363 anti-HCV-positive patients (309 HCV RNA positive by...
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