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Routes of transmission of hepatitis C virus in an endemic rural area of Japan. Molecular epidemiologic study of hepatitis C virus infection.
Scandinavian journal of infectious diseases - 1 Jan 1997
Noguchi S, Sata M, Suzuki H, Mizokami M, Tanikawa K
Abstract excerpt
We conducted an epidemiological study to investigate the routes of transmission of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in an area endemic for HCV. Subjects were the 857 adult inhabitants of K area, Japan. The prevalence of antibody to HCV (anti-HCV) was 26.3%. The HCV genotype 1b was the most prevalent (89.3%) among the anti-HCV positive subjects. Molecular evolutionary analysis, based on the nucleotide sequences...
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