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Consensus proposals for a unified system of nomenclature of hepatitis C virus genotypes†

  1. Peter Simmonds1,‡,*,
  2. Jens Bukh2,
  3. Christophe Combet3,
  4. Gilbert Deléage3,
  5. Nobuyuki Enomoto4,
  6. Stephen Feinstone5,
  7. Phillippe Halfon6,
  8. Geneviève Inchauspé7,
  9. Carla Kuiken8,
  10. Geert Maertens9,
  11. Masashi Mizokami10,
  12. Donald G. Murphy11,
  13. Hiroaki Okamoto12,
  14. Jean-Michel Pawlotsky13,
  15. François Penin3,
  16. Erwin Sablon9,
  17. Tadasu Shin-I10,
  18. Lieven J. Stuyver14,
  19. Heinz-Jürgen Thiel15,
  20. Sergei Viazov16,
  21. Amy J. Weiner17,
  22. Anders Widell18

Article first published online: 7 SEP 2005

DOI: 10.1002/hep.20819

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Hepatology

Hepatology

Volume 42, Issue 4, pages 962–973, October 2005

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Simmonds, P., Bukh, J., Combet, C., Deléage, G., Enomoto, N., Feinstone, S., Halfon, P., Inchauspé, G., Kuiken, C., Maertens, G., Mizokami, M., Murphy, D. G., Okamoto, H., Pawlotsky, J.-M., Penin, F., Sablon, E., Shin-I, T., Stuyver, L. J., Thiel, H.-J., Viazov, S., Weiner, A. J. and Widell, A. (2005), Consensus proposals for a unified system of nomenclature of hepatitis C virus genotypes. Hepatology, 42: 962–973. doi: 10.1002/hep.20819

Author Information

  1. 1

    Centre for Infectious Diseases, University of Edinburgh, Summerhall, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

  2. 2

    Hepatitis Viruses Section, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

  3. 3

    Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Protéines, Pôle BIoinformatique de Lyon, BioSciences Lyon-Gerland, Lyon, France

  4. 4

    First Department of Internal Medicine, University of Yamanashi, Tamaho, Yamanashi, Japan

  5. 5

    Laboratory of Hepatitis Viruses, Division of Viral Products, Food and Drug Administration, Bethesda, MD

  6. 6

    Laboratoire Alphabio, Marseille, France

  7. 7

    CNRS-BioMérieux, Immunothérapie des Maladies Infectieuses Chroniques, Lyon, France

  8. 8

    Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM

  9. 9

    Innogenetics n.v., Ghent, Belgium

  10. 10

    Department of Clinical Molecular Informative Medicine, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kawasumi, Mizuho, Nagoya, Japan

  11. 11

    Laboratoire de Santé Publique du Québec, Institut National de Santé Publique du Québec, Québec, Canada

  12. 12

    Division of Virology, Department of Infection and Immunity, Jichi Medical School, Tochigi, Japan

  13. 13

    Department of Virology, INSERM U635, Henri Mondor Hospital, University of Paris, Créteil, France

  14. 14

    Virco BVBA, Generaal De Wittelaan, Mechelen, Belgium

  15. 15

    Institut für Virologie, Justus-Liebig-Universität, Giessen, Germany

  16. 16

    Institute of Virology, Essen University Hospital, Essen, Germany

  17. 17

    Chiron Corporation, Emeryville, CA

  18. 18

    Department of Medical Microbiology, Malmö University Hospital, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden

  1. ‡

    fax: (44) 131 650 6511

*Centre for Infectious Diseases, University of Edinburgh, Summerhall, Edinburgh, EH9 1QH, United Kingdom

  1. †

    Potential conflict of interest: Nothing to report.

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 20 SEP 2005
  2. Article first published online: 7 SEP 2005
  3. Manuscript Accepted: 2 JUN 2005
  4. Manuscript Received: 21 APR 2005

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  • HepCVax Cluster (EU FP5). Grant Number: QLK2-2002-01329
  • VIRGIL Network of Excellence (EU FP6). Grant Number: LSHM-CT-2004-503359

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