TABLE 1.

Data on patients and genotypes of recovered HCV strains in the three investigations

Patient no.	Sex	Yr born	Origin of serum sample	Epidemiological backgrounda	Date of onset of HCV infection	Serum samplee		HCV genotype
						Date taken	Identification
1:1	M	1946	Karlstad	DP	Dec. 1989b	Dec. 1991	1182/92d	3a
1:2	F	1971	Karlstad	DP	Jan. 1992b	May 1992	7394/93	1a
1:3	F	1921	Karlstad	DP	Aug. 1992c	Aug. 1992	7398/93	1a
1:4	M	1915	Karlstad	DP	Aug. 1992c	Nov. 1992	7400/93	1a
1:5	M	1919	Karlstad	DP	Aug. 1992c	Nov. 1993	316/94	1a
1:6	F	1966	Karlstad	DP	Nov. 1992b	Jan. 1995	286/95	1a
1:7	M	1923	Karlstad	DP	Apr. 1993b	Apr. 1993	7395/93d	1a
1:8	M	1941	Karlstad	DP	June 1994c	June 1994	974/94	2b
1:9	F	1945	Karlstad	Nurse	Oct. 1994b	Oct. 1994	1047/94	3a
2:1	M	1919	Stockholm/Avesta	DP	1990b	Dec. 1995	699/95	1a
2:2	M	1924	Stockholm/Avesta	DP	1990b	Dec. 1995	700/95	1a
2:3	M	1943	Avesta	DP	Nov. 1990b	Oct. 1994	681/95	1a
2:4	M	1972	Avesta	DP	Sep. 1993	Nov. 1995	695/95	1a
2:5	M	1955	Avesta	DP	June 1995	Nov. 1995	694/95	1a
2:6	F	1926	Avesta	DP	June 1995	Nov. 1995	696/95	1a
3:1	F	1934	Uppsala	Nurse	June 1993c	June 1993	6260/93	1a
3:2	M	1923	Uppsala	DP	Dec. 1991b	Jul. 1992	406/94	1a

^aDP, dialysis patient. 

^bFirst known anti-HCV-positive sample. 

^cFirst anti-HCV-negative and HCV PCR-positive sample. 

^dAnalysis of the C (core) region. 

^eFor the HCV strain used for genetic analysis.