Article
Degree of diversity of hepatitis C virus quasispecies and progression of liver disease.
Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) - 1 Nov 1994
Honda M, Kaneko S, Sakai A, Unoura M, Murakami S, Kobayashi K
Abstract excerpt
We examined the quasispecies of the hepatitis C virus genome in 28 patients with liver disease of varying severity. Nucleotide sequences of the hepatitis C virus genome spanning the region from the core to envelope were used to calculate the nucleotide diversity: 0.58% +/- 0.88% in 5 patients wit...
Topics
- Adult
- Aged
- Base Sequence
- Carcinoma, Hepatocellular
- Female
- Genetic Variation
- Genome, Viral
- Hepacivirus
- Hepatitis C
- Hepatitis, Chronic
- Humans
- Liver Cirrhosis
- Liver Neoplasms
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Oligonucleotide Probes
- Regression Analysis
