Genotypes, nt 1858 variants, and geographic origin of hepatitis B virus- large-scale analysis using a new genotyping method

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 175, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1285-1293

  Lindh, Magnus ^a   Andersson, Ann Sofi ^a   Gusdal, Annkatrin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEPATITIS B; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEROCONVERSION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VIRUS INFECTIVITY; VIRUS MUTATION;

EID: 0030995314     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/516458     Document Type: Article

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