Effect of immune pressure on hepatitis C
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Shahzma Merani; Danijela Petrovic; Ian James; Abha Chopra; Don Cooper; Elizabeth
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Article
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2011
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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The host's immune response to hepatitis C virus (HCV) can result in the selection of characteristic mutations (adaptations) that enable the virus to escape this response. The ability of the virus to mutate at these sites is dependent on the incoming virus, the fitness cost incurred by the mutation,