Taghi Naserpour Farivar, Pouran Johari, Mohammad Kazem Nezam.
Genotyping of hepatitis C virus isolated from hepatitis patients in southeast of Iran by Taqman realtime PCR.
J Pak Med Assoc Jan ;61(6):586-8.

Objectives: To check TaqMan Realtime PCR in detecting genotypes of hepatitis C virus in Iran. Methods: From July 2007 to April 2009, HCV genotyping was done on 52 patients who were referred to Research Centre for infectious Disease and Tropical Medicine, in Bou-Ali Hospital, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences. All these patients had proven hepatitis C infection. Results: Out of 52 anti HCV positive samples, 28(53.84%) had genotype 1, 2 cases (3.88 %) had genotype 2 , 12 (23.08 %) had genotype 3 and 7 (13.4 %) had genotype 4 . Mixed infection with genotypes 1 and 3 was seen in 3 cases (5.77 %). Conclusion: TaqMan probes for detecting genotyping of HCV were successful in picking genotyping of HCV infection especially those with mixed genotypes.

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