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Table 5 Quasispecies diversity in nonresponders before and after treatment

From: Genetic distance and heterogenecity between quasispecies is a critical predictor to IFN response in Egyptian patients with HCV genotype-4

 

insertions

Deletions

Transition

Transversion

Total (number of mutational spots)

Genotype

Number of quasispecies

NR pre

1

0

0

0

1

4g

1

NR post

0

0

8

5

13

4g

1

BT1 pre

0

0

1

0

1

4a

2

BT1 post

0

0

3

1

4

4a

6

BT2 pre

0

2

6

3

11

4

2

BT2post

0

2

6

4

12

4

4

BT3 pre

0

1

2

1

4

4a

2

BT3 post

0

1

4

1

8

4a

8

BT4 pre

0

1

1

0

2

4

1

BT4 post

0

1

3

0

4

4

4

BT5 pre

1

0

4

1

6

4

2

BT5 post

1

0

4

4

9

4

8