High Prevalence of Hepatitis B Virus Pre-S Mutant in Countries Where It Is Endemic and Its Relationship with Genotype and Chronicity

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 5449-5455

  Huy, Tran Thien Tuan ^a,b,c   Ushijima, Hiroshi ^b   Win, Khin Maung ^d   Luengrojanakul, Pairoj ^e   Shrestha, Pradeep Krishna ^f   Zhong, Zhao Hua ^g   Smirnov, Andrei V ^h   Taltavull, Teresa Casanovas ⁱ   Sata, Tetsutaro ^a   Abe, Kenji ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c CHO RAY HOSPITAL   (Viet Nam)

^d Yangon General Hospital   (Myanmar)

^e MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^f TRIBHUVAN UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITAL   (Nepal)

^g HARBIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^h PIROGOV RUSSIAN NATIONAL RESEARCH MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

ⁱ HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; VIRUS DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BOLIVIA; CHILD; CHINA; CHRONICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GHANA; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; JAPAN; KOREA; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYANMAR; NEPAL; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SERUM; SPAIN; START CODON; THAILAND; UNITED STATES; VIET NAM; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS MUTANT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ASIA; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS, DUCK; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PREVALENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; VARIATION (GENETICS); VIRAL ENVELOPE PROTEINS;

DNA VIRUSES; HEPATITIS B VIRUS;

EID: 10744220544     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.12.5449-5455.2003     Document Type: Article

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