Selecting a genetic region for molecular analysis of hepatitis B virus transmission [9]

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 687-688

  Datta, Sibnarayan ^a   Banerjee, Arup ^a   Chandra, Partha Kumar ^a   Chakravarty, Runu ^a  

^a INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONICITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; IMMUNE STATUS; LETTER; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS MUTATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; GENETIC MARKERS; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMANS; INDIA;

HEPATITIS B VIRUS;

EID: 33847020352     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02046-06     Document Type: Letter

References (22)

1. Akarca, U. S., S. Greene, and A. S. Lok. 1994. Detection of precore hepatitis B virus mutants in asymptomatic HBsAg-positive family members. Hepatology 19:1366-1370.
2. Banerjee, A., S. Banerjee, A. Chowdhury, A. Santra, S. Chowdhury, S. Roychowdhury, C. K. Panda, S. K. Bhattacharya, and R. Chakravarty. 2005. Nucleic acid sequence analysis of BCP/precore/core region of hepatitis B virus isolated from chronic carriers of the virus from Kolkata, Eastern India: low frequency of mutation in the precore region. Intervirology 48:389-399.
3. Bracho, M. A., M. J. Gosalbes, F. Gonzalez, A. Moya, and F. Gonzalez-Candelas. 2006. Molecular epidemiology and evolution in an outbreak of fulminant hepatitis B virus. J. Clin. Microbiol. 44:1288-1294.
4. Chakravarty, R., M. Neogi, S. Roychowdhury, and C. K. Panda. 2002. Presence of hepatitis B surface antigen mutant G145R DNA in the peripheral blood leukocytes of the family members of an asymptomatic carrier and evidence of its horizontal transmission. Virus. Res. 90:133-141.
5. Cowie, B. C. 2006. Is there an optimal genetic target for molecular analysis of hepatitis B virus transmission? J. Clin. Microbiol. 44:3051.
6. Datta, S., A. Banerjee, P. K. Chandra, A. Chowdhury, and R. Chakravarty. 2006. Genotype, phylogenetic analysis, and transmission pattern of occult hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection in families of asymptomatic HBsAg carriers. J. Med. Virol. 78:53-59.
7. Doganci, T., G. Uysal, T. Kir, A. Bakirtas, N. Kuyucu, and L. Doganci. 2005. Horizontal transmission of hepatitis B virus in children with chronic hepatitis B. World J. Gastroenterol. 11:418-420.
8. Dumpis, U., E. C. Holmes, M. Mendy, A. Hill, M. Thursz, A. Hall, H. Whittle, and P. Karayiannis. 2001. Transmission of hepatitis B virus infection in Gambian families revealed by phylogenetic analysis. J. Hepatol. 35:99-104.
9. Ho, M. S., C. F. Lu, J. Kuo, Y. C. Mau, and W. H. Chao. 1995. A family cluster of an immune escape variant of hepatitis B virus infecting a mother and her two fully immunized children. Clin. Diagn. Lab. Immunol. 2:760-762.
10. Hunt, C. M., J. M. McGill, M. I. Allen, and L. D. Condreay. 2003. Clinical relevance of hepatitis B viral mutations. Hepatol. 2000 31:1037-1044.
11. Huo, T. I., J. C. Wu, Y. H. Huang, U. C. Yang, I. J. Sheen, F. Y. Chang, and S. D. Lee. 1998. Evidence of transmission of hepatitis B virus to spouses from sequence analysis of the viral genome. J. Gastroenterol. Hepatol. 13:1138-1142.
12. Milas, J., D. Ropac, R. Mulic, V. Milas, I. Valek, I. Zoric, and K. Kozul. 2000. Hepatitis B virus in the family. Eur. J. Epidemiol. 16:203-208.
13. Oon, C. J., W. N. Chen, K. S. Goo, and K. T. Goh. 2000. Intra-familial evidence of horizontal transmission of hepatitis B virus surface antigen mutant G145R. J. Infect. 41:260-264.
14. Ozasa, A., Y. Tanaka, E. Orito, M. Sugiyama, J. H. Kang, S. Hige, T. Kuramitsu, K. Suzuki, E. Tanaka, S. Okada, H. Tokita, Y. Asahina, K. Inoue, S. Kakumu, T. Okanoue, Y. Murawaki, K. Hino, M. Onji, H. Yatsuhashi, H. Sakugawa, Y. Miyakawa, R. Ueda, and M. Mizokami. 2006. Influence of genotypes and precore mutations on fulminant or chronic outcome of acute hepatitis B virus infection. Hepatology 44:326-334.
15. Santantonio, T., M. C. Jung, G. Pastore, G. Angarano, S. Gunther, and H. Will. 1997. Familial clustering of HBV pre-C and pre-S mutants. J. Hepatol. 26:221-227.
16. Simmonds, P. 2001. Reconstructing the origin of human hepatitis viruses. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 356:1013-1026.
17. Szmaragd, C., G. R. Foster, A. Manica, A. Bartholomeusz, R. A. Nichols, and F. Balloux. 2006. Genome-wide characterisation of hepatitis B mutations involved in clinical outcomes. Heredity 97:389-397.
18. Thakur, V., S. N. Kazim, R. C. Guptan, V. Malhotra, and S. K. Sarin. 2003. Molecular epidemiology and transmission of hepatitis B virus in close family contacts of HBV-related chronic liver disease patients. J. Med. Virol. 70: 520-528.
19. Thakur, V., S. N. Kazim, R. C. Guptan, S. E. Hasnain, A. Bartholomeusz, V. Malhotra, and S. K. Sarin. 2005. Transmission of G145R mutant of HBV to an unrelated contact. J. Med. Virol. 76:40-46.
20. Weinberger, K. M., T. Bauer, S. Bohm, and W. Jilg. 2000. High genetic variability of the group-specific a-determinant of hepatitis B virus surface antigen (HBsAg) and the corresponding fragment of the viral polymerase in chronic virus carriers lacking detectable HBsAg in serum. J. Gen. Virol. 81:1165-1174.
21. Wu, W., Y. Chen, B. Ruan, and L. J. Li. 2005. Gene heterogeneity of hepatitis B virus isolates from patients with severe hepatitis B. Hepatobilliary Pancreat. Dis. Int. 4:530-534.
22. Zampino, R., L. Salvatore, M. Chiaramonte, C. Venturi-Pasini, U. Dumpis, M. Thursz, and P. Karayiannis. 2002. Intra-familial transmission of hepatitis B virus in Italy: phylogenetic sequence analysis and amino-acid variation of the core gene. J. Hepatol. 36:248-253.