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[Research of type 1, 2 and 3 hepatitis C virus specific antibodies in relation to the viral genotype in chronically infected patients].
Pathologie-biologie - 1 Jan 1997
Castelain S, Duverlie G, Khorsi H, Zawadzki P, Capron D, Capron J P, Sueur J M, Orfila J, Eb F
Abstract excerpt
The determination of the viral genotype in chronically HCV infected patients is used as an epidemiologic tool, a predictive marker of the evolution of the disease and especially of the response to the interferon alfa therapy. Its determination needs an amplification of the selected genomic region and remains expensive. Thus an indirect determination of the genotype has been proposed using the characterization of...
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