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Tracking hepatitis C virus quasispecies major and minor variants in symptomatic and asymptomatic liver transplant recipients.
Journal of virology - 1 Nov 1996
Gretch D R, Polyak S J, Wilson J J, Carithers R L, Perkins J D, Corey L
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To evaluate the possibility that distinct viral quasispecies play a role in the pathogenesis of progressive hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, we performed a detailed evaluation of HCV quasispecies before and after liver transplantation in five patients infected with HCV genotype 1, three of whom developed severe recurrent hepatitis C and two of whom developed asymptomatic posttransplant infections with...
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