Letter H

Hepatitis C virus

A single-stranded RNA virus in the Flaviviridae family that causes hepatitis C.

Abbreviated HCV.

The HCV genome contains some 10,000 nucleotides and encodes a single polyprotein of 3,000 amino acids.

HCV was discovered in 1989. Before that time, hepatitis C was referred to as non-A, non-B hepatitis

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