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seroprevalence of hepatitis c virus infection and its genotype in lanzhou, western china.	the seroprevalence of hepatitis c virus (hcv) infection in lanzhou, western china was studied. hcv genotypes in 20 patients with hcv infection was determined by genotype-specific primer for polymerase chain reaction (pcr) based on hcv core region and compared with the genotype assigned by sequence comparison and molecular evolutionary analysis based on the same region. antibody to hcv (anti-hcv) was present in 2.5% of volunteer blood donors and in 35.0% of paid blood donors (p < 0.01). hcv infec ...	1995	7775935
prevalence, genotypes, and an isolate (hc-c2) of hepatitis c virus in chinese patients with liver disease.	china has not been extensively investigated for the prevalence of hepatitis c virus (hcv) infection among people with or without liver disease. we analyzed serum from 2,177 liver disease patients from 7 cities in different areas of china. of 435 acute hepatitis patients, only 11% were positive for hcv rna, while hepatitis b surface antigen (hbsag) was detected in 33%. of 1,668 patients with chronic liver disease, 14% and 74% were positive for hcv rna and hbsag, respectively. nearly 80% of non-b ...	1993	8394876