Molecular epidemiology of GB type C virus among individuals exposed to hepatitis C virus in Cameroon
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Molecular characteristic-based epidemiology of hepatitis B, C, and E viruses and GB virus C/hepatitis G virus in Myanmar.
We carried out a molecular characteristic-based epidemiological survey of various hepatitis viruses, including hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV), hepatitis E virus (HEV), and GB virus C (GBV-C)/hepatitis G virus (HGV), in Myanmar. The study population of 403 subjects consisted of 213 healthy individuals residing in the city of Yangon, Myanmar, and the surrounding suburbs and 190 ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Microbiology Research
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2036-7481,2036-7473
DOI: 10.4081/mr.2013.e1