Complete hepatitis B virus genome analysis in HBsAg positive mothers and their infants with fulminant hepatitis B

BMC Gastroenterology

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Friedt, Michael ^a   Gerner, Patrick ^b   Wintermeyer, Philip ^b   Wirth, Stefan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; VIRUS DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; INFANT; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERINATAL INFECTION; PROMOTER REGION; SEROLOGY; VIRUS GENOME; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE MISPAIRING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NEWBORN; OPEN READING FRAME; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE PAIR MISMATCH; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC;

EID: 10444247261     PISSN: 1471230X     EISSN: 1471230X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-230X-4-11     Document Type: Article

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