Low genetic diversity despite hyperendemicity of hepatitis B virus genotype E throughout West Africa

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 190, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 400-408

  Mulders, Mick N ^a   Venard, Veronique ^b   Njayou, Mounjohou ^c   Edorh, A Patrick ^d   Bola Oyefolu, Akeeb O ^e   Kehinde, M O ^e   Tamfum, Jean Jacques Muyembe ^f   Nébie, Yacouba K ^g,h   Maïga, Ibradim ⁱ   Ammerlaan, Wim ^a   Fack, Fred ^a   Omilabu, Sunday A ^e   Le Faou, Alain ^b   Muller, Claude P ^a  

^a National Public Health Laboratory   (Luxembourg)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^c Centre de Biotechnologie   (Cameroon)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ABOMEY CALAVI   (Benin)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS   (Nigeria)

^f Natl Inst of Biomedical Research   (Democratic Republic Congo)

^g CENTRE MURAZ   (Burkina Faso)

^h Dist Health Center of Dandé   (Burkina Faso)

ⁱ Hopital National du Point G   (Mali)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; ARTICLE; BENIN; BURKINA FASO; CAMEROON; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONGO; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA VIRUS; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; IMMIGRATION; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALI; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NIGERIA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOGO; VIRUS CARRIER; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS MUTATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA, WESTERN; AGED; CARRIER STATE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA, VIRAL; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; GENES, VIRAL; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 3242699041     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/421502     Document Type: Article

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