Serological HCV results by country.

<p>Abbreviations: %, percentage; CI, Confidence Interval.</p

Serological HCV results by age.

<p>Abbreviations: yrs, years; sampled, number sampled; +ve, number of serologically positive samples;</p>*<p>, participants sex was not recorded; U/N, age not recorded.</p

Serological HCV results by town in Papua New Guinea.

<p>Abbreviations: %, percentage; CI, Confidence Interval.</p

Primers.

<p>Primers used in RT-PCR, and PCR reactions of the 5′UTR and NS5B region of HCV and the nested amplifications of the IL28B SNPs. Genotype 7 is in quotations as it is yet to be confirmed as a new genotype. TaqMan SNP typing for rs8099917 was conducted using custom Assays-on-Demand products from Applied Biosystems (C__11710096_10) and verified with the listed primers, using standard PCR and sequencing techniques.</p