Hepatitis B virus: Predominance of genotype D in primitive tribes of the Andaman and Nicobar islands, India (1989-1999)

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 84, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1915-1920

  Arankalle, V A ^a   Murhekar, K M ^b   Grandhe, S S ^a   Murhekar, M V ^b   Ramdasi, A Y ^a   Padbidri, V S ^a   Sehgal, S C ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (India)

^b Regional Medical Research Centre   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; INDIA; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPING; SOUTHEAST ASIA; VIRUS ISOLATION;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROTYPING;

ANIMALIA; DNA VIRUSES; HEPATITIS B VIRUS;

EID: 0038827394     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.18943-0     Document Type: Article

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