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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
Abstract excerpt
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 sequences, various genotypes and subtypes of HCV have been described from different geographical regions. In the present study,...
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