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Divergent evolution of hepatitis C virus in liver and peripheral blood mononuclear cells of infected patients.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Jan 1999
Maggi F, Fornai C, Morrica A, Vatteroni M L, Giorgi M, Marchi S, Ciccorossi P, Bendinelli M, Pistello M
Abstract excerpt
In infected individuals, hepatitis C virus (HCV) exists as a variably complex population of related genetic variants known as quasispecies. The quasispecies of HCV were studied previously in 10 chronically infected patients by single-strand conformation polymorphism analysis of a segment of the envelope gene E2/NS1 containing the hypervariable region 1 and it was found that certain variants (LC variants) were...
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