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Hepatitis C virus heteroduplex tracking assay for genotype determination reveals diverging genotype 2 isolates in Italian hemodialysis patients.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Jan 1998
Calvo P L, Kansopon J, Sra K, Quan S, DiNello R, Guaschino R, Calabrese G, Danielle F, Brunetto M R, Bonino F, Massaro A L, Polito A, Houghton M, Weiner A J
Abstract excerpt
A heteroduplex tracking assay (HTA) was developed for genetic analyses of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) using single-stranded probes from the core (C)/E1 region. Nucleotide sequencing of reverse transcriptase (RT)-PCR products from 15 Italian dialysis patients confirmed the specificity and accuracy of the HTA genotyping method, which identified 5 of 15 (33.3%) 1b, 7 of 15 (46.7%) 3a, and 3 of 15 (20%) type 2...
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