Phylogeny of African complete genomes reveals a West African genotype A subtype of hepatitis B virus and relatedness between Somali and Asian A1 sequences

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 86, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 2163-2167

  Hannoun, Charles ^a   Söderström, Ann ^a   Norkrans, Gunnar ^a   Lindh, Magnus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; HEPATITIS B(E) ANTIGEN; THREONINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOMALIA; SOUTH AFRICA; START CODON; VIRUS STRAIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; ASIA; CHILD; GENOME, VIRAL; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

HEPATITIS B VIRUS;

EID: 23044471836     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.80972-0     Document Type: Article

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