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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Oct 25.
Published in final edited form as: Hepatology. 2009 May;49(5):1449–1459. doi: 10.1002/hep.22821

Table 1.

Study groups.

Groups N Characteristics
Group I 17 Acute HCV infection with one of two HCV genotype 1b strains (strain A and strain B) during an HCV outbreak in a hemodialysis unit
Group II 24 HCV-negative acute hepatitis A (n=9) or B (n=15)
Group III 216 Chronic HCV genotype 1 infection
Group IV 187 Patients with no markers of common chronic viral infections
Group V 122 HIV-infected patients
Group VI 93 Patients with chronic HBV infection (HBsAg-positive)