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J Clin Microbiol. 1994 September; 32(9): 2276-2279

Analysis of hepatitis C virus isolates among healthy blood donors and drug addicts in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Thailand.

ABSTRACT

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) isolates obtained from 25 anti-HCV antibody-positive healthy blood donors and 29 drug addicts in Chiang Mai, Thailand, were analyzed. HCV RNA was detected in 23 blood donor samples (92%) and 24 drug addict blood samples (83%) by PCR for a portion of the NS5 region. Subtype analysis revealed that HCV type 3a (HCV-3a) was the prevailing subtype (30%), which was followed in prevalence by HCV-1a (21%), -1b (13%), -3b (13%), and -6a (2%). Six (13%) of the 47 isolates showed low sequence similarities with known types and subtypes. The sequence variants could be grouped into four branches in a molecular evolutionary phylogenetic tree.

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