Community-based epidemiology of hepatitis B virus infection in West Bengal, India: Prevalence of hepatitis B e antigen-negative infection and associated viral variants

Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology (Australia)

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1712-1720

  Chowdhury, Abhijit ^a,e   Santra, Amal ^a   Chakravorty, Runu ^b   Banerji, Arup ^b   Pal, Suparna ^a   Dhali, Gopal K ^a   Datta, Sibnarayan ^b   Banerji, Soma ^c   Manna, Byomkesh ^d   Chowdhury, Susanta Roy ^c   Bhattacharya, Sujit K ^d   Mazumder, Debendranath Guha ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF POST GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^b INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (India)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL BIOLOGY   (India)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHOLERA AND ENTERIC DISEASES   (India)

^e NONE   (India)

Author keywords

HBV genotypes; Population based study in India; Precore and basal core promoter mutation

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; GUANOSINE; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; HEPATITIS B(E) ANTIGEN; VIRUS DNA; GUANINE; HEPATITIS B ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; INDIA; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STOP CODON; SYMPTOM; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS MUTANT; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; BLOOD; CHILD; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; IMMUNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; VIROLOGY;

ADENINE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CODON, TERMINATOR; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA, VIRAL; GENOTYPE; GUANINE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B ANTIBODIES; HEPATITIS B E ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMANS; INDIA; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; PREVALENCE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 33644800514     PISSN: 08159319     EISSN: 14401746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1746.2005.04070.x     Document Type: Article

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