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| Title |
Phylogenetic analysis of the emergence of main hepatitis C virus subtypes in São Paulo, Brazil
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| Published in |
Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases, August 2015
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| DOI | 10.1016/j.bjid.2015.06.010 |
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| Authors |
Anna Shoko Nishiya, César de Almeida-Neto, Camila Malta Romano, Cecília Salete Alencar, Suzete Cleusa Ferreira, Claudia Di-Lorenzo-Oliveira, José Eduardo Levi, Nanci Alves Salles, Alfredo Mendrone-Junior, Ester Cerdeira Sabino |
| Abstract |
It is recognized that hepatitis C virus subtypes (1a, 1b, 2a, 2b, 2c and 3a) originated in Africa and Asia and spread worldwide exponentially during the Second World War (1940) through the transfusion of contaminated blood products, invasive medical and dental procedures, and intravenous drug use. The entry of hepatitis C virus subtypes into different regions occurred at distinct times, presenting exponential growth rates of larger or smaller spread. Our study estimated the growth and spread of the most prevalent subtypes currently circulating in São Paulo. A total of 465 non-structural region 5B sequences of hepatitis C virus covering a 14-year time-span were used to reconstruct the population history and estimate the population dynamics and Time to Most Recent Common Ancestor of genotypes using the Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo approach implemented in BEAST (Bayesian evolutionary analysis by sampling tree software/program). Evolutionary analysis demonstrated that the different hepatitis C virus subtypes had distinct growth patterns. The introduction of hepatitis C virus-1a and -3a were estimated to be circa 1979 and 1967, respectively, whereas hepatitis C virus-1b appears to have a more ancient entry, circa 1923. Hepatitis C virus-1b phylogenies suggest that different lineages circulate in São Paulo, and four well-supported groups (i.e., G1, G2, G3 and G4) were identified. Hepatitis C virus-1a presented the highest growth rate (r=0.4), but its spread became less marked after the 2000s. Hepatitis C virus-3a grew exponentially until the 1990s and had an intermediate growth rate (r=0.32). An evident exponential growth (r=0.26) was found for hepatitis C virus-1b between 1980 and the mid-1990s. After an initial period of exponential growth, the expansion of the three main subtypes began to decrease. Hepatitis C virus-1b presented inflated genetic diversity, and its transmission may have been sustained by different generations and transmission routes other than blood transfusion. Hepatitis C virus-1a and -3a showed no group stratification, most likely due to their recent entry. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Switzerland | 1 | 20% |
| Japan | 1 | 20% |
| Unknown | 3 | 60% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 40% |
| Scientists | 2 | 40% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 20% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 2 | 5% |
| Unknown | 41 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 7 | 16% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 6 | 14% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 5 | 12% |
| Student > Master | 5 | 12% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 4 | 9% |
| Other | 8 | 19% |
| Unknown | 8 | 19% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 10 | 23% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 8 | 19% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 5 | 12% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 2 | 5% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 2 | 5% |
| Other | 4 | 9% |
| Unknown | 12 | 28% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 07 February 2017.
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