HCV Database
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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SV362s, SV363s + + + + + + Hemi-nested PCR, degenerate primers; length of product is 394nt Sergei Viazov, Stefan Ross (unpublished)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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