Phylogenetic and genotyping of hepatitis C virus in Egypt

Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-8

  Omran, Moataza H ^a   Youssef, Samar S ^a   El Garf, Wael T ^a   Tabll, Ashraf A ^a   Bader Eldin, Noha G ^a   Atef, Khaled ^a   Nabil, Wael ^a   El Awady, Mostafa K ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Genotyping; HCV; Multiplex PCR; PCR; Phylogenetic analysis; Sequencing analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 65549088985     PISSN: 19918178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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