Spouse-to-Spouse Transmission and Evolution of Hypervariable Region 1 and 5' Untranslated Region of Hepatitis C Virus Analyzed by Next-Generation Sequencing.

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) transmission between spouses remains poorly characterized, largely due to the limited availability of samples from the early stage of infection, as well as methodological constraints. A fifty-eight year-old male developed acute hepatitis C infection and his 53-year old spouse...

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Main Authors: Kamila Caraballo Cortes, Osvaldo Zagordi, Joanna Jabłońska, Agnieszka Pawełczyk, Natalia Kubisa, Karol Perlejewski, Iwona Bukowska-Ośko, Rafał Płoski, Marek Radkowski, Tomasz Laskus
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4769329?pdf=render