Genotype determination of hepatitis C virus from northern India: identification of a new subtype.

doi:10.1002/(SICI)1096-9071(199602)48:2<191::AID-JMV12>3.0.CO;2-I

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Genotype determination of hepatitis C virus from northern India: identification of a new subtype.

Journal of medical virology - 1 Feb 1996

Panigrahi A K, Roca J, Acharya S K, Jameel S, Panda S K

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Hepatitis C virus (HCV) shows substantial nucleotide sequence diversity distributed throughout the viral genome, with many variants showing only 68-79% overall sequence homology. This has led to problems in diagnosis of HCV using commercial immunoassays. Based on clustering of homologous sequence...

Topics

Amino Acid Sequence
Base Sequence
DNA, Viral
Genotype
Hepacivirus
Humans
India
Molecular Sequence Data
Phylogeny
Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
Viral Core Proteins
Viral Envelope Proteins
Viral Nonstructural Proteins

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