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Comparison of hepatitis C virus serotyping and genotyping in French patients.
Clinical and diagnostic virology - 1 Feb 1997
Castelain S, Zawadzki P, Khorsi H, Darchis J P, Capron D, Sueur J M, Eb F, Duverlie G
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BACKGROUND: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) serotyping has been proposed as an alternative assay to determine the respective genotype as it is more rapid, simple and less expensive than polymerase chain reaction (PCR) based typing methods. OBJECTIVES: A serotyping assay was compared with a genotyping assay to determine the infecting hepatitis C virus type in chronically HCV infected patients eligible for interferon...
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