Natural intragenotypic and intergenotypic HCV recombinants are rare in southwest China even among patients with multiple exposures

Journal of Clinical Virology

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 272-276

  Zhou, YouQian ^a,b   Wang, XiaoHong ^a   Hong, GuoHu ^a   Tan, ZhaoXia ^a   Zhu, Yan ^a   Lan, Lin ^a   Mao, Qing ^a  

^a THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b The 169th Hospital of Chinese People's Liberation Army   (China)

Author keywords

China; Genotype; HCV; Mixed infection; Recombination

Indexed keywords

NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 5B; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIRUS CARRIER; VIRUS CORE; VIRUS ENVELOPE; VIRUS RECOMBINANT;

ADULT; CHINA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; MALE; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RNA, VIRAL; VIRAL CORE PROTEINS; VIRAL ENVELOPE PROTEINS; VIRAL NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEINS;

EID: 78149497310     PISSN: 13866532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcv.2010.08.007     Document Type: Article

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