Complete nucleotide sequence of hepatitis B virus isolated from two infants with fulminant hepatitis

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 38-39

  Abe, Kenji ^a   Kiuchi, Tetsuya ^b   Aiba, Naoto ^a   Tran, Huy Thien Thuan ^a,c   Ding, Xin ^a   Yamaguchi, Mari ^d   Sata, Tetsutaro ^a   Tanaka, Koichi ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d PALMA Bee 'Z Research Inst Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS A ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS B CORE ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; VIRUS DNA; VIRUS RNA;

AMPLICON; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; INFANT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROLOGY; STOP CODON; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS ISOLATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMANS; INFANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 0038137227     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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