Deconvoluting the composition of low-frequency hepatitis C viral quasispecies: comparison of genotypes and NS3 resistance-associated variants between HCV/HIV coinfected hemophiliacs and HCV monoinfected patients in Japan.

Pre-existing low-frequency resistance-associated variants (RAVs) may jeopardize successful sustained virological responses (SVR) to HCV treatment with direct-acting antivirals (DAAs). However, the potential impact of low-frequency (∼0.1%) mutations, concatenated mutations (haplotypes), and their ass...

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Main Authors: Masato Ogishi, Hiroshi Yotsuyanagi, Takeya Tsutsumi, Hiroyuki Gatanaga, Hirotaka Ode, Wataru Sugiura, Kyoji Moriya, Shinichi Oka, Satoshi Kimura, Kazuhiko Koike
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0119145