[[File:Hegasy Hep C Virus EN-01.jpg|thumb|Model af [[Hepatitis C-virus]]]]
'''Hepatitis C-virus''' ('''HCV''')<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://talk.ictvonline.org/ictv-reports/ictv_online_report/positive-sense-rna-viruses/w/flaviviridae/362/genus-hepacivirus|title=Genus: Hepacivirus|publisher=[[International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses]]|date=juli 2018|access-date=30. maj 2020|archive-date= 2. maj 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200502004559/https://talk.ictvonline.org/ictv-reports/ictv_online_report/positive-sense-rna-viruses/w/flaviviridae/362/genus-hepacivirus|url-status=dead}}</ref> er en lille (55–65 [[Nanometer|nm]]), [[Membrankappe|kappebærende]], positiv-[[Sense (molekylærbiologi)|sense]] enkeltstrenget [[RNA-virus]] af familien ''[[Flaviviridae]]''. Hepatitis C-virussen forårsager [[hepatitis C]] og nogle kræftforme såsom [[leverkræft]] og [[lymfeknudekræft]] i mennesker.<ref name="Ferri2015">{{cite journal|last1=Ferri|first1=Clodoveo|title=HCV syndrome: A constellation of organ- and non-organ specific autoimmune disorders, B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and cancer|journal=World Journal of Hepatology|volume=7|issue=3|year=2015|pages=327–43|issn=1948-5182|doi=10.4254/wjh.v7.i3.327|pmid=25848462|pmc=4381161}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |pmid=23871966 | doi=10.1016/j.canlet.2013.06.028 | volume=345 | issue=2 | title=Mechanisms of HCV-induced liver cancer: what did we learn from in vitro and animal studies? | pmc=3844040 | year=2014 | journal=Cancer Lett. | pages=210–5 |vauthors=Rusyn I, Lemon SM }}</ref>
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