Article
Assessment of hepatitis C virus sequence complexity by electrophoretic mobilities of both single-and double-stranded DNAs.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Oct 1998
Wang Y M, Ray S C, Laeyendecker O, Ticehurst J R, Thomas D L
Abstract excerpt
To assess genetic variation in hepatitis C virus (HCV) sequences accurately, we optimized a method for identifying distinct viral clones without determining the nucleotide sequence of each clone. Twelve serum samples were obtained from seven individuals soon after they acquired HCV during a prosp...
Topics
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA, Single-Stranded
- DNA, Viral
- Entropy
- Genetic Variation
- Hepacivirus
- Hepatitis C
- Humans
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Polymorphism, Single-Stranded Conformational
- Prospective Studies
- Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Sensitivity and Specificity
