Conservation in China of a novel group of HCV variants dating to six centuries ago.

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Published in Virology on July 18, 2014

Authors

Yuling An1, Tao Wu2, Min Wang3, Ling Lu4, Chunhua Li5, Yuanpin Zhou6, Yongshui Fu3, Guihua Chen1

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Liver Transplantation, Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510630, China.
2: Department of Infectious Disease, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510515, China; Department of Infectious Disease, Hainan General Hospital, Haikou, Hainan 570311, China.
3: Guangzhou Blood Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510095, China.
4: Department of Liver Transplantation, Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510630, China; Center for Viral Oncology, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS 66160, USA. Electronic address: llu@kumc.edu.
5: Center for Viral Oncology, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS 66160, USA.
6: Department of Infectious Disease, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510515, China.

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