Novel HCV genotyping assay by microwell plate amplification and competitive hybridization: HCV-G-MACH assay: Motokazu Mukaide, SRL, Inc, Tokyo Japan; Kentaro Yoshioka, Third Department of Internal Medicine, Nagoya University, School of Medicine, Nagoya Japan; Gilbert R Kaufmann, Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Basel Switzerland; Kazuo Suzuki, National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Sydney Austria; Kiyotaka Fujise, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine (Kashiwa), The Jikei University School of Medicine, Chiba Japan; Kazuhiro Hayashida, Medicine and Biosystemic Science, Internal Medicine, Medicine and Surgery, Kyushu University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Fukuoka Japan; Mitsunobu Imai, Department of Virology, Kanagawa Prefectural Public Health Laboratory, Yokohama Japan; Hirokazu Kakuda, Yumiko Saito, SRL, Inc, Tokyo Japan; Anthony Kelleher, David A Cooper, National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Sydney Australia; Shinichi Kakumu, First Department of Internal Medicine and Research Center for Infectious Disease, Aichi Medical University, Aichi-ken Japan