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Chronic Variant of Myocarditis Associated With Hepatitis C Virus Infection
1 Jul 1997
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BACKGROUND: Although molecular biological studies suggest a pathogenic link between enterovirus infection and dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), the frequency of detection of enteroviral RNA is not consistently high in myocardial tissue from patients with DCM. A recent study has suggested that hepatitis C virus (HCV) may also be involved in the development of DCM. METHODS AND RESULTS: We performed genomic analysis for...
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