HCV 6a prevalence in guangdong province had the origin from vietnam and recent dissemination to other regions of china: Phylogeographic analyses

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Fu, Yongshui ^a,b   Qin, Weibing ^c,d   Cao, Hong ^d   Xu, Ru ^b   Tan, Yi ^e   Lu, Teng ^f   Wang, Hongren ^d   Tong, Wangxia ^d   Rong, Xia ^b   Li, Gang ^d   Yuan, Manqiong ^g   Li, Chunhua ^g   Abe, Kenji ^h   Lu, Ling ^d,g   Chen, Guihua ^d  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Guangzhou Blood Center   (China)

^c Family Planning Research Institute of Guangdong Province   (China)

^d THE THIRD AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG ABUSE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS 6A; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VIET NAM; VIRUS STRAIN; BAYES THEOREM; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; VIROLOGY;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; CHINA; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PREVALENCE; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; VIETNAM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84855518142     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0028006     Document Type: Article

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