New patterns of HCV subtypes distribution in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 107-108

  Gul, Amina ^a,b   Ahmed, Jawad ^a   Zahir, Fazli ^c   Ali Khan, Imtiaz ^c   Ali, Ijaz ^b  

^a KHYBER MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b Department of Electrical Computer Engineering   (Pakistan)

^c THE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOTYPE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS SUBTYPE 1A; HEPATITIS C VIRUS SUBTYPE 1B; HEPATITIS C VIRUS SUBTYPE 2A; HEPATITIS C VIRUS SUBTYPE 3A; HEPATITIS C VIRUS SUBTYPE 3B; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PAKISTAN; PREVALENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA GENE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS STRAIN; BLOOD; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HEPACIVIRUS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; VIROLOGY;

VIRUS RNA;

HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; PAKISTAN; RNA, VIRAL;

EID: 84957714533     PISSN: 14138670     EISSN: 16784391     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bjid.2015.09.007     Document Type: Letter

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