Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is one of the most important
Flavivirida infections with significant clinical problems
throughout the world in humans. Six major Hepatitis C virus (HCV)
genotypes and hundreds of subtypes have been identified globally.
All these genotypes are generally studied for epidemiology, their
vaccine development and clinical management. This thesis comments
the frequency distribution of various HCV genotypes circulate in
different areas/districts of Khyber Pakhtoonkhaw Province of
Pakistan. Out of the tested samples, genotype specific PCR
fragments were observed in 299 (74.82%) patient serum samples. The
distribution of genotypes of the typeable samples was as follows: 3
patients (0.72%) each were infected with genotype 1a and genotype
1b; 240 patients (80.26%) of genotype 3a; 25 patients (6.00%)
genotype 3b; and 28 patients (6.73%) were observed as with mixed
genotypic infection. Sums of 116 serum samples (27.88%) were still
found untypeable by the used molecular genotyping system. In
conclusion, HCV genotypes 1a, 1b, 3a and 3b are distributed in
various parts of KPK among which the genotype 3a is the most
frequent genotype.
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