Prevalence of hepatitis B virus genotype D in precore mutants among chronic liver disease patients from New Delhi, India

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 565-569

  Kar, Premashis ^a,b   Polipalli, Sunil K ^a   Chattopadhyay, Saket ^a   Hussain, Zahid ^a   Malik, Abdul ^a   Husain, Syed A ^a   Medhi, Subhash ^a   Begum, Nargis ^a  

^a LOK NAYAK HOSPITAL   (India)

^b NONE   (India)

Author keywords

Genotype; HBV mutant; Ligase chain reaction; Point mutation; Precore

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B CORE ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; HEPATITIS B(E) ANTIGEN; VIRUS DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; INDIA; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROLOGY; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS STRAIN;

ADENINE; ADULT; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GUANINE; HEPATITIS B CORE ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS B E ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS B, CHRONIC; HUMANS; INDIA; LIGASE CHAIN REACTION; MALE; POINT MUTATION; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 33846798390     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10620-006-9625-z     Document Type: Article

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