Hepatitis C virus HCV
In 1989, the hepatitis C virus (HCV), previously known only as the default virus "non-A, non-B" could be characterized. The particularity of the work done by a team of American society Chiron, is that the viral genome was isolated and sequenced before the virus itself. To do this, a database of all DNA and RNA in the plasma of infected monkeys was established and vetted with the serum of a patient with hepatitis C. The antibodies of the subject have recognized a first fragment of RNA, which, used as a probe, then
