TY - BOOK AU - Nehal Hussein Ibrahim Abdou AU - Abdelrahman Zekri , AU - Ghada Sherief , AU - Mahmoud Ahmed Amer , TI - Candidate epitopes for possible development of HCV vaccine from E1/E2 region / PY - 2013/// CY - Cairo : PB - Nehal Hussein Ibrahim Abdou , KW - Candidate epitopes KW - E1 /E2 KW - HCV N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Science - Department of Zoology; Issued also as CD N2 - 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 UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -