TABLE 3.

Virological characteristics of hepatitis C in serum and liver specimens

Specimen	HCV genotype	Serum viral loada	% of hepatocytes staining positive for HCV RNA		R/G ratiob
			Genomic	Replicative intermediate
A-1	1b	8 × 103	73	6	0.08
A-2	1b	500 × 106	85	11	0.13
B-1	1a	100 × 106	28	4	0.14
B-2	1a	288 × 106	31	12	0.39
C	1a	37 × 106	60	21	0.35
D	1a	NA	47	21	0.45
E	1a	NA	71	25	0.35

^aExpressed as HCV RNA equivalents per milliliter. NA, not assessed. 

^bPercentage of hepatocytes staining positive for HCV replicative-intermediate RNA (R) divided by percentage of hepatocytes staining positive for HCV genomic RNA (G).