… patients from this small community required liver transplantation … 1999 that revealed a high
prevalence of HCV infection (5.7%) … viremia had genotype 1b infection with a single restriction …

… one in NS5B almost entirely (19 sequences from Argentina … HCV-1 infected patients detected
a high prevalence of known … (Capital of Argentina) and the metropolitan area. Nevertheless, …

… HCV prevalence, genotypes, and risk factors in Central West … million have a chronic hepatitis
C virus (HCV) infection [1, 2]. … groups, with the highest prevalence found in Mendoza County …

… (Venezuela, Mexico and Argentina) G2 shows a significantly … Hepatitis C virus (HCV)
infection is one of the main global … latter largely driven by its high prevalence in South Asia (66.7…

… Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is one of the leading causes of chronic … due to the high incidence
of HCV infection from the 1970s … available on HCV prevalence in Argentina although some …

… Argentina is considered a low-endemicity country, with a … although higher rates have been
described in different small rural … known as “quasispecies” within each infected individual. This …

… Contrary to expectations, this study found a higher prevalence … results, one Brazilian study
has reported low prevalence of Q80K … Due to the small analyzed sample size, caution must be …

… and 2004, which resulted in high rates of hepatic failure, a … The vaccination schedule
consisted of a single-dose for 12-… the only autochthonous genotype detected in Argentina so far (…

… Infection with one of the viruses was detected in 31.1 % of … As result of the particularly high
prevalence of HCV infection found … Hepatitis C virus genotype 1 infection: prevalence of NS5A …

… HCV genotype (GT) was determined in 228 patients … presented a high prevalence of
anti-HCV. Great differences in the … than one third of the Argentinian population lives in the area of …