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Humoral immune response to the hypervariable region of hepatitis C virus differs between genotypes 1b and 2a.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 1 Mar 1997
Yoshioka K, Aiyama T, Okumura A, Takayanagi M, Iwata K, Ishikawa T, Nagai Y, Kakumu S
Abstract excerpt
Antibody to the hypervariable region (HVR) of HCV is thought to have neutralizing activity. The HCV genotype is known to affect the clinical course of infection. The antibody response to HVR and its relationship to the virologic and clinical characteristics were investigated in 21 patients with chronic hepatitis C. HVRs amplified by polymerase chain reaction from serum HCV were expressed as glutathione...
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