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Donor Strains Of Hepatitis C Prevail In Previously Infected Blood Recipients

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, March 12th, 2001

by Sonia Nichols, staff medical writer -- New research suggests donor strains of hepatitis C virus (HCV) can begin to overrule and predominate in blood transfusion recipients already infected with HCV.

A natural characteristic of HCV infection is that it occurs in a number of different genotypes or strains. According to Tomasz Laskus and associates, Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, at least three HCV patients who received HCV infected blood transfusions and subsequently developed HCV infections predominated by the donor's HCV genotype have been identified.

"Two recipients were exposed to two different HCV RNA-positive donors, and one was exposed to a single...

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