Analysis of the entire nucleotide sequence of hepatitis B virus genotype B in the Philipines reveals a new subgenotype of genotype B

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1175-1180

  Nagasaki, Futoshi ^a   Niitsuma, Hirofumi ^a   Cervantes, Julieta G ^a,b   Chiba, Masanori ^a   Hong, Shan ^a   Ojima, Toshiaki ^a   Ueno, Yoshiyuki ^a   Bondoc, Edgardo ^b   Kobayashi, Koju ^c   Ishii, Motoyasu ^d   Shimosegawa, Tooru ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b ST LUKE S MEDICAL CENTER   (Philippines)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d Mizusawa General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; FEMALE; GENBANK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; INDONESIA; JAPAN; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHILIPPINES; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROTYPE; VIET NAM; VIRUS ISOLATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; GENOME, VIRAL; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B E ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHILIPPINES;

HEPATITIS B VIRUS;

EID: 33646126942     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.81525-0     Document Type: Article

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