TEMPORAL CHANGES IN HCV GENOTYPE DISTRIBUTION IN THREE DIFFERENT HIGH RISK POPULATIONS IN SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA

Temporal changes in HCV genotype distribution in three different high risk populations in San Francisco, California

Abstract Background Hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotype (GT) has become an important measure in the diagnosis and monitoring of HCV infection treatment.In the United States (U.S.) HCV GT 1 is reported as the most common infecting GT among chronically infected patients.In Europe, however, recent studies have suggested that the epidemiology of HCV GTs i

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Aggressive Predation Drives Assembly of Adriatic Fish Communities

We performed over 19,000 lure-assisted, underwater visual fish census transects at over 140 shallow coastal sampling Pool Chemicals locations in the mid- eastern Adriatic sea of the Croatian mainland and islands, recording all fish taxa observed, their predatory behavior in response to the lure, and the cover of benthic habitats with which they wer

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