title: Genotyping of Hepatitis C virus (HCV) in infected patients from South India.
abstract: Hepatitis C virus shows substantial nucleotide sequence diversity distributed throughout the viral genome. In the present study genotyping for Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infected patients was based on RFLP analysis of 5' UTR and using type specific primers of NS5B regions. It was observed that 60% of the patients (30 patients with chronic hepatitis) were infected with variants of genotype 1 and 40% of the patients (4 chronic hepatitis patients, 12 patients with chronic renal failure and 4 cirrhosis) were infected with variants of type 3 of HCV. None of the cirrhotic patients and patients with chronic renal failure, in the present study, were infected with type 1 of HCV. While PCR-RFLP, typing was rapid in conjunction with the primers used for RT-PCR, NS5 typing was helpful in determining the subtype. There was good correlation between the two typing methods and this method can be used as a cost-effective method for studying large number of samples. The study shows that predominant genotypes of HCV in South India include type 1 and 3. Type 3 seems to be transmitted nosocomially as suggested by the results in patients with chronic renal failure, as these patients are exposed to multiple medical interventions.
authors.affiliation: Center for Liver Research and Diagnostics, Deccan College of Medical Sciences and Allied Hospitals, Kanchanbagh, Hyderabad 58, Andhra Pradesh, India.
authors.forename: Madhavi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Chandra
authors.forename: Rekha
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Thippavuzzula
authors.forename: V V
authors.initials: VV
authors.lastname: Ramachandra Rao
authors.forename: Aejaz M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Habib
authors.forename: Chittor M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Habibullah
authors.forename: Lakshmi
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Narasu
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Prameela
authors.forename: Mohammed N
authors.initials: MN
authors.lastname: Khaja
mesh_terms: D020121:5' Untranslated Regions; D000328:Adult; D001483:Base Sequence; D017931:DNA Primers; D005260:Female; D005838:Genotype; D016174:Hepacivirus / Q000235:genetics*; D006526:Hepatitis C / Q000821:virology*; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012150:Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D017361:Viral Nonstructural Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D012324:RNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase
chemical_list: D020121:5' Untranslated Regions; D017931:DNA Primers; D017361:Viral Nonstructural Proteins; C087036:NS-5 protein, hepatitis C virus; D012324:RNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase