Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a hepatotropic RNA virus that causes progressive liver damage,
which might result in liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. Globally, between 64 and …

More than two decades of intense research has provided a detailed understanding of
hepatitis C virus (HCV), which chronically infects 2% of the world's population. This effort has …

The 2005 consensus proposal for the classification of hepatitis C virus (HCV) presented an
agreed and uniform nomenclature for HCV variants and the criteria for their assignment into …

Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus) are globally distributed and concentrate in urban
environments, where they live and feed in closer proximity to human populations than most …

Insensitivity and technical complexity have impeded the implementation of high-throughput
nucleic acid sequencing in differential diagnosis of viral infections in clinical laboratories …

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is an important human pathogen that causes hepatitis, liver cirrhosis
and hepatocellular carcinoma. It imposes a serious problem to public health in the world as …

Hepatitis C virus (HCV), a Hepacivirus, is a major cause of viral hepatitis, liver cirrhosis, and
hepatocellular carcinoma. HCV envelope glycoproteins E1 and E2 mediate fusion and entry …

Proposals are described for the assignment of recently reported viruses, infecting rodents,
bats and other mammalian species, to new species within the Hepacivirus and Pegivirus …

Highlights•Pathogen discovery is critically important to infectious diseases and public
health.•Nearly all new outbreaks are caused by the emergence of novel viruses.•Genomic …

Time-scales of viral evolution and emergence have been studied widely, but are often poorly
understood. Molecular analyses of viral evolutionary time-scales generally rely on estimates …