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Hepatitis C virus genotypes in patients with persistent infection--a preliminary report.
Israel journal of medical sciences - 1 Jan 1997
Bogomolski-Yahalom V, Ashur Y, Klein A, Tur-Kaspa R
Abstract excerpt
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) has nucleotide sequence diversity distributed throughout the viral genome, with variants showing even less than 70% homology. There is some evidence that sequence variation of HCV genotypes partly determines the course of infection and response to treatment with interferon. We studied the sera of 29 Israeli HCV patients, all suffering from chronic liver disease, and 34 patients with renal...
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