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ArticleViral immunology2013

Phylogenetic analysis of isolated HCV strains from tunisian hemodialysis patients.

Fatma Houissa Kchouk, Yousr Gorgi, Lamjed Bouslama, Imen Sfar, Rym Ayari, Hacene Khiri, Phillipe Halfon, Houda Aouadi, Saloua Jendoubi Ayed, Khaled Ayed and 1 more

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Article in Viral immunology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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11 authors.

Fatma Houissa KchoukImmunology Research Laboratory of Kidney Transplantation and Immunopathology, Charles Nicolle Hospital, Tunis El Manar University, Boulevard 9 Avril, Tunis, Tunisia.
Yousr Gorgi
Lamjed Bouslama
Imen Sfar
Rym Ayari
Hacene Khiri
Phillipe Halfon
Houda Aouadi
Saloua Jendoubi Ayed
Khaled Ayed
Taieb Ben Abdallah

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The present study describes the strains of hepatitis C virus (HCV) isolated from Tunisian hemodialysis patients. Thirty-three HCV strains isolated from different dialysis centers in Tunis City were amplified by RT-PCR in a region of the NS5b gene, genotyped by sequencing, and compared to international sequences by phylogenetic analysis. The phylogenetic tree showed that 16 HCV isolates have been identified as subtype 4k (48.5%), 7 as unspecified HCV-4 subtype (21.2%), 5 as subtype 4a et 1b (each 15.2%). The analysis of this tree revealed that the HCV-1b strains were closely related to Anglo-Saxon and European isolates, while the HCV-4 isolates are genetically similar to Egyptian and African strains. Phylogenic analysis of 33 Tunisian isolates with international HCV strains on a region of the NS5b gene demonstrated that the subtype 4k submerged the Tunis city and a new subtype of HCV4 seems to be suspect in this area.

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Genetic VariationPhylogenyAdultCluster AnalysisFemaleGenotypeHepacivirusHepatitis CHumansMaleMiddle AgedMolecular EpidemiologyMolecular Sequence DataRenal DialysisReverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain ReactionRNA-Dependent RNA PolymeraseNS-5 protein, hepatitis C virusRNA-Dependent RNA PolymeraseRNA, ViralViral Nonstructural Proteins

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PMID23374151
PMCPMC3578366

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