Hepatitis B Virus Genotype D Prevails in Patients with Persistently Elevated or Normal ALT Levels in Turkey

Infection

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 24-29

  Yalcin, K ^a   Degertekin, H ^a   Bahcecioglu, I H ^b   Demir, A ^b   Aladag, M ^c   Yildirim, B ^c   Horasanli, S ^d   Ciftci, S ^d   Badur, S ^d  

^a DICLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c INONU UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; HEPATITIS B(E) ANTIGEN; LIVER ENZYME; PRIMER DNA; VIRUS DNA;

ADULT; AGE; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEVICE; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER DISEASE; MALE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); VIRUS CARRIER;

ADULT; ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; BASE SEQUENCE; CARRIER STATE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS B, CHRONIC; HUMANS; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TURKEY;

EID: 1142273151     PISSN: 03008126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s15010-004-3010-7     Document Type: Article

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