Comparison of hepatitis C viral loads in patients with or without coinfection with different genotypes.

نویسندگان

  • Alejandro Schijman
  • Rodney Colina
  • Sergey Mukomolov
  • Olga Kalinina
  • Laura García
  • Shobha Broor
  • Ajoy Varma Bhupatiraju
  • Peter Karayiannis
  • Baldip Khan
  • Cristina Mogdasy
  • Juan Cristina
چکیده

Hepatitis C virus genotyping was assessed for 257 chronic hepatitis C patients with viral loads above 1,000 IU/ml. Twelve patients were coinfected with more than one genotype. Their median viral loads did not differ significantly from those observed for monoinfected patients, which in turn did not vary significantly among different genotypes.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Clinical and diagnostic laboratory immunology

دوره 11 2  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2004