Article
Prevalence, genotypes, and an isolate (HC-C2) of hepatitis C virus in Chinese patients with liver disease.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Jul 1993
Wang Y, Okamoto H, Tsuda F, Nagayama R, Tao Q M, Mishiro S
Abstract excerpt
China has not been extensively investigated for the prevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection among people with or without liver disease. We analyzed serum from 2,177 liver disease patients from 7 cities in different areas of China. Of 435 acute hepatitis patients, only 11% were positive fo...
Topics
- Base Sequence
- China
- DNA Probes
- Epidemiologic Methods
- Genotype
- Hepacivirus
- Hepatitis C
- Humans
- Liver Diseases
- Molecular Sequence Data
- RNA, Viral
