Recombination in Hepatitis C Virus
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a Flavivirus with a positive-sense, single-stranded RNA genome of about 9,600 nucleotides. It is a major cause of liver disease, infecting almost 200 million people all over the world. Similarly to most RNA viruses, HCV displays very high levels of genetic diversity which...
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MDPI AG
2011-10-01
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Online Access: | http://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/3/10/2006/ |