Genotyping of hepatitis E virus from Vietnam

Intervirology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 101-104

  Hijikata, Minako ^a,c   Hayashi, Shigeki ^b   Trinh, Ngoc Thi ^e   Ha, Le Dang ^e   Ohara, Hiroshi ^c   Shimizu, Yohko K ^a   Keicho, Naoto ^a   Yoshikura, Hiroshi ^d  

^a Research Institute   (Japan)

^b Department of Gastroenterology ^*  (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^e BACH MAI HOSPITAL   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Genotype; Hepatitis E virus; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIET NAM; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS ISOLATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIETNAM;

HEPATITIS E VIRUS;

EID: 0036974269     PISSN: 03005526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000063231     Document Type: Article

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