Analysis of the entire nucleotide sequence of hepatitis B causing consecutive cases of fatal fulminant hepatitis in Miyagi Prefecture Japan

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 967-973

  Nagasaki, Futoshi ^a   Ueno, Yoshiyuki ^a   Niitsuma, Hirofumi ^a   Inoue, Jun ^a   Kogure, Takayuki ^a   Fukushima, Koji ^a   Kobayashi, Koju ^b   Shimosegawa, Tooru ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fulminant hepatitis; Genotype B; Hepatitis B virus; Subgenotype B2

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; VIRUS ISOLATION;

AGED; BASE SEQUENCE; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; GENOME, VIRAL; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMANS; JAPAN; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

HEPATITIS B VIRUS; VIBRIO PHAGE NT-1;

EID: 43249125823     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: 10969071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmv.21167     Document Type: Article

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