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SUBMITTER: Demetriou VL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3270303 | biostudies-literature | 2011
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Demetriou Victoria L VL Kyriakou Eftychia E Kostrikis Leondios G LG
Advances in virology 20110515
Few natural intergenotypic hepatitis C virus (HCV) recombinants have been characterised, and only RF1_2k/1b has demonstrated widespread transmission. The near-full length genome sequences for two cases of 2k/1b recombinants (CYHCV037 and CYHCV093) sampled in Cyprus were obtained using strain-specific RT-PCR amplification and sequencing protocols. Sequence analysis confirmed their similarity with the original RF1_2k/1b strain from St. Petersburg, N687. These two isolates significantly contribute ...[more]