HCV 6a prevalence in Guangdong province had the origin from Vietnam and recent dissemination to other regions of China: phylogeographic analyses.
Recently in China, HCV 6a infection has shown a fast increase among patients and blood donors, possibly due to IDU linked transmission.We recruited 210 drug users in Shanwei city, Guangdong province. Among them, HCV RNA was detected in 150 (71.4%), both E1 and NS5B genes were sequenced in 136, and 6...
Main Authors: | Yongshui Fu, Weibing Qin, Hong Cao, Ru Xu, Yi Tan, Teng Lu, Hongren Wang, Wangxia Tong, Xia Rong, Gang Li, Manqiong Yuan, Chunhua Li, Kenji Abe, Ling Lu, Guihua Chen |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2012-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3253785?pdf=render |
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