
The quasispecies nature and biological implications of the hepatitis C virus
Keywords: HCV, hepatitis C virus; IFN, interferon; IRES, internal ribosome entry site; HVR1, first hypervariable region; SSCP, single stranded conformation polymorphism; HIV, human immunodeficiency virus-1; HTA, homo duplex tracking assay; CFA, clonal frequency ana