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Distribution of genotypes and response to alpha-interferon in patients with hepatitis C virus infection in Germany.
European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology - 1 Feb 1996
Feucht H H, Zöllner B, Schröter M, Hoyer A, Sterneck M, Polywka S
Abstract excerpt
To determine the distribution of hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotypes in German isolates, nucleotide sequences of the viral nonstructural 5 (NS5) genome domains were analyzed in isolates from 107 chronically HCV-infected patients. Of these 107 patients, 46 (43.0% were infected with subtype 1a and 47 (43.9%) with subtype 1b. Six patients (5.6%) with a history of intravenous drug abuse were infected with subtype 3a....
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