Epidemiologic and virologic characteristics of hepatitis B virus genotype B having the recombination with genotype C

Gastroenterology

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 925-932

  Sugauchi, Fuminaka ^a   Orito, Etsuro ^a   Ichida, Takafumi ^b   Kato, Hideaki ^a   Sakugawa, Hiroshi ^c   Kakumu, Shinichi ^d   Ishida, Takafumi ^e   Chutaputti, Anuchit ^g   Lai, Ching Ling ^h   Gish, Robert G ⁱ   Ueda, Ryuzo ^a   Miyakawa, Yuzo ^f   Mizokami, Masashi ^a  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^d AICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^f Miyakawa Memorial Research Foundation   (Japan)

^g PRAMONGKUTKLAO HOSPITAL   (Thailand)

^h QUEEN MARY HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

ⁱ CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B(E) ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; ASIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; JAPAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEROCONVERSION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VIRUS CARRIER; VIRUS CORE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS RECOMBINATION;

EID: 0037382062     PISSN: 00165085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/gast.2003.50140     Document Type: Article

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