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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Bracho MA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1151931 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of clinical microbiology 20050601 6
We analyzed a hepatitis C virus (HCV) transmission case in the hemodialysis unit of a private clinic by sequencing two genome regions of virus isolates from a number of patients attending this unit and some external controls. The analysis of 337 nucleotides (nt) in the NS5B region did not provide enough resolution to ascertain which patients were actually involved in the outbreak and the potential source. Nevertheless, this region allowed the exclusion of several patients as putative sources of ...[more]