Phylodynamics of hepatitis C virus subtype 2c in the province of Córdoba, Argentina

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Ré, Viviana E ^a,b   Culasso, Andrés C A ^c   Mengarelli, Silvia ^d   Farías, Adrián A ^a   Fay, Fabián ^e   Pisano, María B ^a   Elbarcha, Osvaldo ^b   Contigiani, Marta S ^a   Campos, Rodolfo H ^c  

^a FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS MÉDICAS   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^d Hospital Zonal General Agudos San Roque   (Argentina)

^e Laboratorio CIBIC   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRANCE; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; ITALY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MONOPHYLY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BAYES THEOREM; CLASSIFICATION; DEMOGRAPHY; GENETICS; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS GENOTYPE 2; HEPATITIS C VIRUS SUBTYPE 2C;

NS 5 PROTEIN, HEPATITIS C VIRUS; NS-5 PROTEIN, HEPATITIS C VIRUS; VIRUS PROTEIN;

AGED; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARGENTINA; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; DEMOGRAPHY; HEPACIVIRUS; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; VIRAL NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEINS;

EID: 79956188449     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019471     Document Type: Article

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