Genotyping of hepatitis B virus by restriction pattern analysis of a pre-S amplicon

Journal of Virological Methods

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 163-174

  Lindh, Magnus ^a,b   Gonzalez, Jorge E ^c   Norkrans, Gunnar ^b   Horal, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b Department of Infectious Diseases ^*  (Sweden)

^c Instituto Nacional de Microbiologia Dr Carlos GMalbran   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Genotypes; HBV; Phylogenetic; RFLP

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; HEPATITIS B(E) ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; TECHNIQUE;

GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; VIROLOGY;

EID: 0031802085     PISSN: 01660934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-0934(98)00026-3     Document Type: Article

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