Recent advances in hepatitis C virus research and understanding the biology of the virus.

NS4A protein as a marker of HCV history suggests that different HCV genotypes originally evolved from genotype 1b. Virol J (2011) 0.89

Isolation of a cDNA clone derived from a blood-borne non-A, non-B viral hepatitis genome. Science (1989) 37.89

Prospective comparison of transient elastography, Fibrotest, APRI, and liver biopsy for the assessment of fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C. Gastroenterology (2005) 9.44

Consensus proposals for a unified system of nomenclature of hepatitis C virus genotypes. Hepatology (2005) 9.39

Biochemical markers of liver fibrosis in patients with hepatitis C virus infection: a prospective study. Lancet (2001) 5.82

A natural intergenotypic recombinant of hepatitis C virus identified in St. Petersburg. J Virol (2002) 3.20

Identification of genotypes of hepatitis C virus by sequence comparisons in the core, E1 and NS-5 regions. J Gen Virol (1994) 2.53

A novel panel of blood markers to assess the degree of liver fibrosis. Hepatology (2005) 2.38

Identification of a naturally occurring recombinant genotype 2/6 hepatitis C virus. J Virol (2006) 1.90

Noninvasive diagnosis of hepatic fibrosis or cirrhosis. Gastroenterology (1997) 1.84

Comparison of test performance profile for blood tests of liver fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C. J Hepatol (2006) 1.14

Naturally occurring substitutions conferring resistance to hepatitis C virus polymerase inhibitors in treatment-naive patients infected with genotypes 1-5. Antivir Ther (2009) 0.81

Detection and quantification of serum or plasma HCV RNA: mini review of commercially available assays. Methods Mol Biol (2009) 0.79