Are natural intragenotypic and intergenotypic HCV recombinants rare in southwest China even among patients with multiple exposures?
Although the high frequency of multitypic HCV infection was identified in patients with multiple exposures, intergenotypic or intragenotypic recombination remains an infrequent event in southwest China; thus, routine genotyping with more than one subgenomic region for clinical use is not warranted.
Baseline and longitudinal estimates of RGC counts may be helpful in predicting progression and performed significantly better than conventional approaches for risk stratification of glaucoma suspects.