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Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences. 2002; 18 (2): 156-159
in English
| IMEMR
| ID: emr-60442
ABSTRACT
To determine the HCV sero-types in patients with chronic liver disease, secondary to chronic hepatitis C in Northern Pakistan. Patients with clinical features of chronic liver disease, elevated ALT, positive anti-HCV, and HCV RNA positive by PCR underwent HCV sero-type determination. Out of 148 patients there are 95 [64.1%] patients who had HCV sero-type III. The second and third most common categories were untypable and HCV sero-type I. Females out numbered males. Patients with chronic liver disease due to HCV infection in this part of Pakistan had predominantly HCV sero-type III