Use of short-tandem repeat (STR) fingerprinting to validate sample origins in hepatitis C virus molecular epidemiology studies

Sequence analysis is used to define the molecular epidemiology and evolution of the hepatitis C virus. Whilst most studies have shown that individual patients harbour viruses that are derived from a limited number of highly related strains, some recent reports have shown that some patients can be co...

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Main Authors: Edwards, Victoria C., McClure, Patrick, Brown, Richard J.P., Thompson, Emma, Irving, William L., Ball, Jonathan K.
Format: Article
Published: Society for General Microbiology 2014
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/2390/

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