High proportion of hepatitis C virus genotypes 1 and 3 in a large cohort of patients from Southern Brazil
AUTOR(ES)
Silva, Cláudia Maria Dornelles da, Costi, Cintia, Krug, Luciano Percival, Ramos, Ana Beatris, Grandi, Tarciana, Gandolfi, Vitório Luiz, Menezes, Maria Elizabeth, Ocampos, Maristela, Niel, Christian, Rossetti, Maria Lucia Rosa
FONTE
Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
31/08/2007
RESUMO
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) isolates have been divided into six genotypes (1 to 6). The duration of hepatitis C standard treatment is 48 weeks for patients infected with HCV genotype 1 vs 24 weeks for those infected with genotypes 2 and 3. A total of 1544 HCV isolates from chronic patients living in the southern Brazilian states of Rio Grande do Sul (RS, n = 627) and Santa Catarina (SC, n = 917) were genotyped by restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) products. In RS, 338 (53.9%; 95% CI 50.0 - 57.8%), 34 (5.4%; 95% CI 3.8 - 7.4%) and, 255 (40.7%; 95% CI 36.9 - 44.6%) samples were from genotypes 1, 2, and 3, respectively. In SC, 468 (51%; 95% CI 47.8 - 54.2%), 26 (2.9%; 95% CI 1.9 - 4.1%) and, 423 (46.1%; 95% CI 42.9 - 49.3%) samples were from genotypes 1, 2, and 3, respectively. Genotyping results were confirmed by direct nucleotide sequencing of PCR products derived from 68 samples, without any discrepancy between PCR-RFLP and nucleotide sequencing methods. In conclusion, almost half of the hepatitis C patients from South of Brazil are infected by genotypes 2 and 3 and, these results have important consequential therapeutic implications as they can be treated for only 24 weeks, not 48.
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