Virological features of hepatitis C virus infection in patients with liver diseases in a high risk region for hepatocellular carcinoma in the inshore area of the Yangtze river.

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  • HORIE Chiyo
    Second Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Tokushima
  • HORIE Takahiro
    Second Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Tokushima
  • HONDA Hirohito
    Second Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Tokushima
  • SHIMIZU Ichiro
    Second Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Tokushima
  • ITO Susumu
    Second Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Tokushima
  • YAO Deng-Fu
    Nantong Medical College, Jiangsu Province, the People's Republic of China

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  • 揚子江下流域肝癌多発地区における肝疾患の特性とＨＣＶに関する研究

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Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is relatively common in China, especially in the inshore area of the Yangtze river including Nantong. In Nantong, most patients with liver disease were infected with HBV, but the prevalence of HCV infection was very low. In HCV infected patients with chronic liver disease, 45.6% were associated with HBV, and 61.4% had a history of blood transfusion. HCV genotype analysis shows that in Nantong genotype II was dominant, followed by genotype III. The genome sequences of the HCV core gene in Natong were more closely similar to those of previous isolates from Japan than those of American and French isolates. These results suggest that HCV infection is not an important etiological factor for HCC in a HBV endemic area, and that HCV in Nantong may have evolved epidemiologically with infections in Japan.

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  • Kanzo

    Kanzo 36 (2), 76-84, 1995

    The Japan Society of Hepatology

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