TABLE 2.

Prevalence of HCV genotypes for 8,237 patients determined by sequence analysis of the NS5B region

Subtype	Prevalence for genotype:
	1		2		3		4		5		6		NGa
	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%
Total	4,889	59.4	741	9.00	2113	25.7	293	3.56	53	0.64	146	1.77	2	0.02
a	3,748	76.7	236	31.8	2095	99.1	115	39.2	53	100	30	20.5
b	1,105	22.6	353	47.6	7	0.33	1	0.34			0
c	2	0.04	81	10.9	0		10	3.41			0
d	6	0.12	1	0.13	0		34	11.6			0
e	2	0.04	1	0.13	0		1	0.34			59	40.4
f	0		0		0		2	0.68			1	0.68
g	5	0.10	0		2	0.09	1	0.34			0
h	2	0.04	0		1	0.05	6	2.05			2	1.37
i	2	0.04	30	4.05	7	0.28	0				0
j	2	0.04	4	0.54			0				0
k	4	0.08	6	0.81	1	0.05	45	15.4			0
l	0		0				13	4.44			2	1.37
m			4	0.54			5	1.71			0
n			0				4	1.37			0
o			0				4	1.37			10	6.85
p			0				1	0.34			7	4.79
q			0				6	2.05			6	4.11
r			4	0.54			30	10.2			8	5.48
s											3	2.05
t							2	0.68
UCb	11	0.22	21	2.83	1	0.05	13	4.44			18	12.3

^aNG, novel genotype.

^bUC, unclassified.