Epidemiology (HCV)
"Subtype 2c of Hepatitis C Virus Is Highly Prevalent in Italy and Is Heterogeneous in the NS5A Region."
Published in Hepatitis Weekly, February 3rd, 1997
According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Journal of Clinical Microbiology, "Hepatitis C virus (HCV) isolates, obtained from 50 Italian patients with community-acquired infection, that had previously been classified as subtype 2a or 2b by current rapid genotyping methods were further characterized by partial sequence analysis. All the isolates were reclassified: 45 within subtype 2c and the other 5 as subtype 1b, 3a, or 4d. Thus, subtype 2c is much more prevalent than previously recognized, with about 30% of all HCV strains detected in Italy being subtype 2c. In contrast, isolates of subtypes 2a and 2b appear to be infrequent, if not absent. Further studies showed...
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Source: Hepatitis Weekly (1997-02-03)
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