High prevalence of hepatitis delta virus infection detectable by enzyme immunoassay among apparently healthy individuals in Mongolia

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 333-340

  Inoue, Jun ^a,b   Takahashi, Masaharu ^a   Nishizawa, Tsutomu ^a   Narantuya, Luvsanbasaryn ^c   Sakuma, Mitsuru ^d   Kagawa, Yasuo ^d   Shimosegawa, Tooru ^b   Okamoto, Hiroaki ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Ministry of Health of Mongolia   (Mongolia)

^d KAGAWA NUTRITION UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anti HDV antibodies; ELISA; HDV RNA; Hepatitis delta virus; Mongolia

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; HEPATITIS DELTA ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; VIRUS DNA; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DELTA AGENT HEPATITIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS DELTA VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONGOLIA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PREVALENCE; RURAL AREA; SEX RATIO; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; URBAN AREA; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS INTERFERENCE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; BASE SEQUENCE; CARRIER STATE; DNA, VIRAL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS ANTIBODIES; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B ANTIBODIES; HEPATITIS B CORE ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS D; HEPATITIS DELTA ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS DELTA VIRUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONGOLIA; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, VIRAL; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

EID: 20044368252     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmv.20363     Document Type: Article

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