Classification of hepatitis B virus genotype B into 2 major types based on characterization of a novel subgenotype in arctic indigenous populations

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 196, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1487-1492

  Sakamoto, Tomoyuki ^a   Tanaka, Yasuhito ^a   Simonetti, Josephine ^b   Osiowy, Carla ^c   Børresen, Malene L ^d   Koch, Anders ^d   Kurbanov, Fuat ^a   Sugiyama, Masaya ^a   Minuk, Gerald Y ^c   McMahon, Brian J ^b   Joh, Takashi ^a   Mizokami, Masashi ^a  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^d STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; ASIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRUS CARRIER; VIRUS STRAIN; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLASSIFICATION; ETHNIC AND RACIAL GROUPS; GENETICS; MIDDLE AGED; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENOME;

ARCTIC REGIONS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; GENOME, VIRAL; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION GROUPS;

EID: 38449102873     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/523111     Document Type: Article

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