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Quasispecies nature of HCV induces many biological characteristics of HCV such as: persistent infection, resistent to anti-viral agents, and failure of production of effective vaccine. It has hypervariable region in the E2/NS1 region, which has been considered to be the cause of its quasispecies characteristic.