Links

Useful websites

• https://www.hepctrust.org.uk/
• https://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Hepatitis-C/Pages/Introduction.aspx?url=Pages/What-is-it.aspx
• https://www.labtestsonline.org.uk/understanding/analytes/hepatitis_c/glance.html
• https://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publichealth/Communicablediseases/HepatitisC/index.htm

Other sources

Wikipedia and related sites provides information and copyright-friendly images

• Wikipedia Encyclopedia
• Wikimedia Commons
• Flickr was also used for additional images under the creative commons license

Further reading

Choo, Q.L. et al. (1991)

Genetic organisation and diversity of the hepatitis C virus.

PNAS 88 2451-2455

Hoofnagle, J.H. (1997)

Hepatitis C: The clinical Spectrum of Disease.

Hepatology 26 15S-20S

Lau, J.Y. et al. (1993)

Significance of serum hepatitis C virus RNA levels in chronic hepatitis C.

Lancet 341 1501-1504

Missale, G. et al. (1996)

Different clinical behaviors of acute hepatitis C virus infection are associated with different vigor of the anti-viral cell-mediated immune response.

The Journal of Clinical Investigation 98 706-714

Simmonds, P. et al. (1993)

Classification of hepatitis C virus into six major genotypes and a series of subtypes by phylogenetic analysis of the NS-5 region.

Journal of General Virology 74 2391-2399