Nehal Hussein Ibrahim Abdou

Candidate epitopes for possible development of HCV vaccine from E1/E2 region / E1/E2 ابيتوب مرشحه لأمكانيه تطوير لقاح للفيروس الكبدى الوبائى سى من المنطقة Nehal Hussein Ibrahim Abdou ; Supervised Mahmoud Ahmed Amer , Abdelrahman Zekri , Ghada Sherief - Cairo : Nehal Hussein Ibrahim Abdou , 2013 - 91 P. : charts , facsimiles ; 25cm

Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Science - Department of Zoology

Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) is a meticulous factor of liver disease and one of the most important health issues worldwide . Egypt has the highest prevalence of HCV in the world with an average of approximately 13.8% in the general . Six major genotypes are found throughout the world where genotype 4 is most predominant in Egypt . HCV contains tow envelope proteins E1/E2 which is responsible for the virus entry and contains two hyper variable regions characterized by a high rate of mutation during replication



Candidate epitopes E1 /E2 HCV