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Hepatitis C virus variants from Jakarta, Indonesia classifiable into novel genotypes in the second (2e and 2f), tenth (10a) and eleventh (11a) genetic groups.
The Journal of general virology - 1 Feb 1996
Tokita H, Okamoto H, Iizuka H, Kishimoto J, Tsuda F, Lesmana L A, Miyakawa Y, Mayumi M
Abstract excerpt
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) isolates from 126 hepatitis patients in Jakarta, Indonesia were genotyped by PCR with genotype-specific primers deduced from the HCV core gene. Fifty-five isolates (44%) were classified as genotype II/1b, 15 (12%) as 1c, 33 (26%) as III/2a, and 1 (1%) as V/3a, while the remaining 22 (17%) were not classifiable into any of the five common genotypes (I/1a, II/1b, III/2a, IV/2b and V/3a) or...
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