Genotyping of Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) in Patients of Basra Province/Iraq
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Hepatitis C Virus Genotyping in Chronic Hepatitis C Patients
Chronic hepatitis C virus infection is a massive worldwide healthcare burden with estimated costs in the USA alone of over $5 billon per annum. The virus has a 9.5kb positive sense single-stranded RNA genome with striking heterogeneity between isolates, which has led to it being divided into 6 genotypes and more than 50 subtypes and many quasispecies that has been arisen due to the infidelity o...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Innovative Research in Science, Engineering and Technology
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2347-6710,2319-8753
DOI: 10.15680/ijirset.2015.0506156