Distinctive sequence characteristics of subgenotype A1 isolates of hepatitis B virus from South Africa

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1211-1220

  Kimbi, Gerald C ^a   Kramvis, Anna ^a   Kew, Michael C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CIS ACTING ELEMENT; NUCLEOTIDE;

AMPLICON; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTH AFRICA; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VIRUS CLASSIFICATION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS PATHOGENESIS;

CARRIER STATE; GENES, REGULATOR; GENOME, VIRAL; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; SOUTH AFRICA;

HEPATITIS B VIRUS; SUBGROUP A;

EID: 2442697592     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.19749-0     Document Type: Article

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