Epidemiology

New Hepatitis C Subtype Variant Found in Japan

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, June 5th, 2000

The report of a new hepatitis C virus (HCV) variant was published recently in the journal Virus Genes.

Investigators at Toshiba General Hospital in Tokyo, Japan, described the genotypic characteristics of this new variant, called VAT96.

"Hepatitis C virus, a single-stranded RNA virus of the family Flaviviridae, has a wide range of genetic heterogeneity: 6-11 genotypes (or six clades) have been known and each genotype comprises multiple subtypes," said E.I. Samokhvalov and associates.

According to investigators, the new genotype variant was isolated from a patient who had chronic hepatitis. Researchers were able to...

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