Previous studies in Argentina have documented a general prevalence of Hepatitis C Virus
(HCV) infection close to 2%. In addition, a high prevalence of HCV has been recently …

Background The estimated prevalence of HCV infection in Argentina is around 2%.
However, higher rates of infection have been described in population studies of small urban …

The recent history of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) subtypes 1a and 1b in the central region of
Argentina is hypothesized by phylogeographic reconstruction using coalescent based …

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a frequent cause of acute and chronic hepatitis and a leading
cause for cirrhosis of the liver and hepatocellular carcinoma. HCV is classified in six major …

AIM: To study the subtype prevalence and the phylogenetic relatedness of hepatitis C virus
(HCV) sequences obtained from the Argentine general population, a large cohort of …

The Hepatitis C Virus Genotype 2 subtype 2c (HCV-2c) is detected as a low prevalence
subtype in many countries, except in Southern Europe and Western Africa. The current …

The global epidemiology of Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) may be roughly described by two
groups of genotypes: the worldwide distributed ones (subtypes 1a, 1b, 2a and 3a, among …

Worldwide, more than 170 million people are chronically infected with the hepatitis C virus
(HCV) and every year die more than 350,000 people from HCV-related liver diseases …

Background The subtype diversity of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotypes is unknown in
Venezuela. Methodology/Principal Findings Partial sequencing of the NS5B region was …

Hepatitis C virus genotype 4 (HCV‐4) is highly prevalent in Spain, but the information on the
molecular characterization of HCV‐4 in this region is scarce. Due to this, the molecular …