Antigenic diversity of hepatitis B virus strains of genotype F in Amerindians and other population groups from Venezuela

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 648-651

  Blitz, Linda ^a   Pujol, Flor H ^b   Swenson, Paul D ^c   Porto, Leticia ^a   Atencio, Ricardo ^a   Araujo, Mary ^a   Costa, Luciana ^a   Monsalve, Diana Callejas ^a   Torres, Jaime R ^d   Fields, Howard A ^e   Lambert, Steve ^e   Van Geyt, Caroline ^f   Norder, Helene ^g   Magnius, Lars O ^g   Echevarría, José M ^h   Stuyver, Lieven ^f  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DEL ZULIA   (Venezuela)

^b Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas Centro de Microbiologia y Biologia Celular   (Venezuela)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH SEATTLE AND KING COUNTY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

^e CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^f INNOGENETICS   (Belgium)

^g SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

^h INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VENEZUELA;

EID: 0031939904     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.36.3.648-651.1998     Document Type: Article

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