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Hepatitis C serotypes in nonalcoholic and alcoholic patients.
Digestive diseases and sciences - 1 Nov 1997
Sherman K E, Mendenhall C, Thee D L, O'Brien J, Rouster S D
Abstract excerpt
Genotyping of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA can be performed by a variety of methods following polymerase chain reaction amplification of a stable RNA portion of the genome. The gold standard is amplification of the RNA from the NS5 region, followed by direct sequencing and homology comparison. This method is extremely labor intensive. In this study, we compared an immunoblot serotyping technique (HCV SIA) to a...
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