Hepatitis C virus: virology and life cycle
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a positive sense, single-stranded RNA virus in the Flaviviridae family. It causes acute hepatitis with a high propensity for chronic infection. Chronic HCV infection can progress to severe liver disease including cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. In the last decade,...
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The Korean Association for the Study of the Liver
2013
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| Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3622851/ |