High prevalence of hepatitis C virus genotype 1b infection in a small town of Argentina. Phylogenetic and Bayesian coalescent analysis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Golemba, Marcelo D ^a   Di Lello, Federico A ^a   Bessone, Fernando ^b   Fay, Fabian ^c   Benetti, Silvina ^c   Jones, Leandro R ^d   Campos, Rodolfo H ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE ROSARIO   (Argentina)

^c Laboratorio Cibic Rosario   (Argentina)

^d Division of Molecular Biology   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BLOOD SAMPLING; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION SIZE; PREVALENCE; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ADULT; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; VIROLOGY;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS GENOTYPE 1;

ADULT; ARGENTINA; BAYES THEOREM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PREVALENCE;

EID: 77649308645     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008751     Document Type: Article

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