hepatitis c genotypes distribution in intravenous drug users in tehran
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Hepatitis C Genotypes Distribution in Intravenous Drug Users in Tehran
I read with interest the published article by Ranjbar Kermani et al. (1). Genotyping of hepatitis C virus (HCV) is important, which provides information about strain variation and characteristics of virus during the treatment and the therapy response rate (2). In addition, it is of epidemiologic value because it sheds light on whether prevalent HCV strains are similar to that endemic ones in a ...
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jundishapur journal of microbiologyجلد ۸، شماره ۳، صفحات ۰-۰
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