Systematic review: epidemiology of hepatitis C genotype 6 and its management
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Systematic review: epidemiology of hepatitis C genotype 6 and its management.
BACKGROUND Hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotype 6 is common among patients from Southeast Asia and the surrounding regions, where HCV prevalence is also high. HCV genotype 6 has great genetic diversity and different response to antiviral therapy compared with the more commonly known genotype 1. AIM Our goal was to provide a systematic review of the current literature on the epidemiology, classifi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0269-2813
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2036.2011.04714.x