Epidemiological and sequence differences between two subtypes (Ae and Aa) of hepatitis B virus genotype A

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 811-820

  Sugauchi, Fuminaka ^a   Kumada, Hiromitsu ^b   Acharya, Subrat A ^c   Shrestha, Santosh Man ^d   Gamutan, Maria Teresita A ^e   Khan, Mobin ^f   Gish, Robert G ^g   Tanaka, Yasuhito ^a   Kato, Takanobu ^a   Orito, Etsuro ^a   Ueda, Ryuzo ^a   Miyakawa, Yuzo ^h   Mizokami, Masashi ^a  

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

^b TORANOMON HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^d Liver Foundation Nepal   (Nepal)

^e San Juan de Dios Hospital   (Philippines)

^f BANGABANDHU SHEIKH MUJIB MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Bangladesh)

^g CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^h Miyakawa Memorial Research Foundation   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; GUANINE; HEPATITIS B(E) ANTIGEN; THYMINE;

AFRICA; ASIA; BANGLADESH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; INDIA; JAPAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MALAWI; NEPAL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHILIPPINES; POINT MUTATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOUTH AFRICA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; UNITED STATES; VIRUS CAPSID; VIRUS CLASSIFICATION; VIRUS CORE; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS TRANSCRIPTION; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

AFRICA; ASIA; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, VIRAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; EUROPE; GENOME, VIRAL; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; VARIATION (GENETICS);

HEPATITIS B VIRUS;

EID: 11144354710     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.79811-0     Document Type: Review

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