Retracted: Genetic diversity in hepatitis C virus (HCV): A brief review.

The following article from Reviews in Medical Virology, Genetic diversity in hepatitis C virus (HCV) a brief review, by M Irshad, published online on December 16 2008 in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com) has been retracted by agreement between the author, the journal Editor in Chief, P.D. Griffiths, and the publisher Wiley Blackwell. The retraction has been agreed due to overlap with the following article by P Simmonds, Genetic diversity and evolution of hepatitis C virus fifteen years on, published in Journal of General Virology, 2004, 85, 3173-3178.