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Distribution of hepatitis C virus genotypes in Slovenia.
Scandinavian journal of infectious diseases - 1 Jan 1997
Seme K, Poljak M, Lesnicar G, Brinovec V, Stepec S, Koren S
Abstract excerpt
To determine the prevalence of HCV genotypes in Slovenia, 203 subjects infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV) were studied using the Inno-Lipa HCV II assay (Innogenetics, Belgium). Of 21 patients infected by blood transfusion 19% had HCV subtype 1a, 81% had subtype 1b, and none of them was infected with genotype 3. In chronic hepatitis C patients infected by unknown cause subtype 1b was the most prevalent (54.4%),...
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