@article{oai:nagasaki-u.repo.nii.ac.jp:00025352,
 author = {Zheng, Wei-Yun and Hasebe, Futoshi and Ali, Ayub and Sinniah, Mangalam and Saraswathy, T. S. and Ooi, Beng Geok and Igarashi, Akira},
 issue = {2},
 journal = {熱帯医学 Tropical medicine},
 month = {Jun},
 note = {Out of 12 patient sera obtained from Malaysia, seven sera (7/12) were found to contain hepatitis C virus (HCV) genome by nested RT-PCR with universal HCV specific primers which were derived from 5' noncoding region (5' NCR). Genotype determination of these 7 Malaysian HCV strains were carried out both by subtype-specific core amplification system (Okamoto et al., 1992 and 1993) and sequencing in the 5' NCR. Four Malaysian strains were major genotype 1 (two of subtype II/1b, one of subtype I/1a and one of co-infection with I/1a + II/1b). The genotypes of 3 remaining strains were determined as major genotype 3 by nucleotide sequences in the 5' NCR. The results showed that HCV major genotype 1, 2 and 3 are common in the world, especially in Asian countries including Malaysia., 熱帯医学 Tropical medicine 38(2). p51-60, 1996},
 pages = {51--60},
 title = {Genotype Determination of Hepatitis C Virus Strains in Malaysia},
 volume = {38},
 year = {1996}
}