Two subtypes of genotype B (Ba and Bj) of hepatitis B virus in Japan

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1222-1228

  Sugauchi, Fuminaka ^a   Kumada, Hiromitsu ^b   Sakugawa, Hiroshi ^d   Komatsu, Masafumi ^e   Niitsuma, Hirofumi ^f   Watanabe, Hisayoshi ^g   Akahane, Yoshihiro ^h   Tokita, Hajime ⁱ   Kato, Takanobu ^a   Tanaka, Yasuhito ^a   Orito, Etsuro ^a   Ueda, Ryuzo ^a   Miyakawa, Yuzo ^c   Mizokami, Masashi ^a  

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

^b TORANOMON HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c Miyakawa Memorial Research Foundation   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^e AKITA CITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^f TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^g YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

ⁱ TOKYO NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDONUCLEASE; VIRUS ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS RECOMBINATION; ACUTE DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIROLOGY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTIGENS, VIRAL; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS B, CHRONIC; HUMANS; JAPAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH;

EID: 2342474452     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/382885     Document Type: Article

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