Eight genotypes (A-H) of hepatitis B virus infecting patients from San Francisco and their demographic, clinical, and virological characteristics

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 516-521

  Kato, Hideaki ^a   Gish, Robert G ^b   Bzowej, Natalie ^b   Newsom, Margaret ^b   Sugauchi, Fuminaka ^a   Tanaka, Yasuhito ^a   Kato, Takanobu ^a   Orito, Etsuro ^a   Usuda, Sadakazu ^c   Ueda, Ryuzo ^a   Miyakawa, Yuzo ^d   Mizokami, Masashi ^a  

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

^b CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Shinagawa ku   (Japan)

^d Miyakawa Memorial Research Foundation   (Japan)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Genotypes; Hepatitis B e antigen; Hepatitis B virus; San Francisco

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; HEPATITIS B(E) ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HISPANIC AMERICAN; HUMAN; LIVER DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEROTYPE; UNITED STATES; VIRUS INFECTION;

ADULT; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS B E ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS B, CHRONIC; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; SAN FRANCISCO; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROTYPING; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

HEPATITIS B VIRUS;

EID: 3042702300     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmv.20120     Document Type: Article

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