Phylogenetic analysis of previously untypeable hepatitis C virus isolates from Argentina.

GISMONDI MI; BECKER, P; VALVA P; GUZMÁN C; PRECIADO MV

JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

American Society for Microbiology

Lugar: Washington; Año: 2006 vol. 44 p. 2229 - 2232

0095-1137

Phylogenetic analysis of hepatitis C virus isolates from Argentina that were previously nontypeable by restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis revealed that they belong to genotype 1a. A substitution at position 107 (G-->A), which is the landmark of these strains, was shown to be distributed among isolates worldwide. The RFLP patterns obtained for these isolates should be added to the ones reported for genotype 1 isolates.