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Prevalence of hepatitis C virus and distribution of its genotypes in Northern Eurasia.
Archives of virology - 1 Jan 1996
Lvov D K, Samokhvalov E I, Tsuda F, Selivanov N A, Okamoto H, Stakhanova V M, Stakhgildyan I V, Doroshenko N V, Yashina T L, Kuzin S N, Suetina I A, Deryabin P G, Ruzaeva L A, Bezgodov V N, Firsova L A, Sorinson S N, Mishiro S
Abstract excerpt
We tested hepatitis C virus (HCV) antibody in 4216 sera collected from healthy people living in European part of Russia (including Northern, North-Western, Central, Central-Blacksoil, Volga-Vyatka, Volga, and North-Caucasian regions), non-European part of Russia (the Urals, East-Siberia, and the Far-East regions) and Mongolia. Prevalence of HCV antibody varied significantly by regions, ranging from 0.7% in...
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