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Phylogenetic characterization of genotype 4 hepatitis C virus isolates from Argentina
V Alfonso1, D Flichman, S Sookoian
1Cátedra de Virología, Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquímica, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|April 28, 2001
Abstract:
Among 114 patients infected with hepatitis C virus, three genotype 4 isolates, unusual in Argentina, were detected by phylogenetic analysis over different genomic regions. The patients were not related. One sample was associated with Egyptian sequences, and the others were associated with a Zairean isolate, a fact which reinforces the idea that they are from independent sources.