Primers

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HCV primers

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List of primers that have been used successfully to amplify multiple HCV genotypes:

		------------------------Genotype-------------------
primers	region	1	2	3	4	5	6	comments	references
DM50 and DM51		+	+	+	+	+	+		Murphy et al
493S, 987R, 502S, 975R		+	+	+	+	+	+	Both inner and outer primer pairs work by themselves	Ray et al
SV542as, SV360s, SV361s, SV362s, SV363s		+	+	+	+	+	+	Hemi-nested PCR, degenerate primers; length of product is 394nt	Sergei Viazov, Stefan Ross (unpublished)
view		+	+	+	+	+	+/-		Enomoto et al

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