Hepatitis delta virus genotype IIb predominates in an endemic area, Okinawa, Japan

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 366-372

  Sakugawa, Hiroshi ^a   Nakasone, Hiroki ^a   Nakayoshi, Tomofumi ^a   Kawakami, Yuko ^a   Miyazato, Shiro ^a   Kinjo, Fukunori ^a   Saito, Atsushi ^a   Ma, Shao Ping ^a   Hotta, Hak ^b   Kinoshita, Moritoshi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c OTSUKA PHARMACEUTICAL CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Genotype; Hepatitis delta virus; Molecular epidemiology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DELTA AGENT HEPATITIS; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS DELTA VIRUS; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS TYPING;

ADULT; AGED; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS D; HEPATITIS DELTA VIRUS; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

DELTA VIRUS; HEPATITIS DELTA VIRUS;

EID: 0032794856     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9071(199908)58:4<366::AID-JMV8>3.0.CO;2-X     Document Type: Article

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