%0 Journal Article
%T Caracteriza£¿£¿o do v¨ªrus da hepatite C em pacientes com hepatite cr£¿nica: gen¨®tipos no Estado do Amazonas, Brasil
%A Ara¨²jo
%A Ana Ruth
%A Almeida
%A Carlos Maur¨ªco de
%A Fraporti
%A Liziara
%A Garcia
%A Nadja
%A Lima
%A Tatiane Am¨¢bili de
%A Maia
%A Laura Patr¨ªcia Viana
%A Torres
%A K¨¢tia Luz
%A Tarrag£¿
%A Andr¨¦a Monteiro
%A Vict¨®ria
%A Flamir
%A Vict¨®ria
%A Marilu
%A Tateno
%A Adriana
%A Levi
%A Jos¨¦ Eduardo
%A Talhari
%A Sin¨¦sio
%A Malheiro
%A Adriana
%J Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
%D 2011
%I Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical - SBMT
%R 10.1590/S0037-86822011000500024
%X introduction: in the state of amazonas, data regarding the prevalence of different genotypes of hepatitis c virus remains scarce. methods: the genotype of 69 hcv positive patients was determined. an in-house standardized nested-pcr was used to detect hcv rna. genotype assignment was based on type-specific motifs on the sequenced amplicons delimited by primers hc11/hc18 from the 5' untranslated region. results: of the 69 patients studied, 65.2% were male and 34.8% were female. genotype 1 showed the greatest prevalence, followed by 3 and 2. conclusions: these data suggesting that manaus is the point of arrival of hcv in the state of amazonas.
%K hepatitis c virus
%K genotyping
%K hepatitis.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0037-86822011000500024&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en