Characteristics of core promoter and precore stop codon mutants of hepatitis B virus in Vietnam

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 228-236

  Huy, Tran Thien Tuan ^a,b,c   Ushijima, Hiroshi ^b   Quang, Vo Xuan ^c   Ngoc, Trinh Thi ^d   Hayashi, Shigeki ^e   Sata, Tetsutaro ^a   Abe, Kenji ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c CHO RAY HOSPITAL   (Viet Nam)

^d BACH MAI HOSPITAL   (Viet Nam)

^e NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION DISASTER MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Corepromoter and precore mutant of HBV; HBV genotype; HBV in Vietnam; HBV variant

Indexed keywords

CORE PROTEIN; HEPATITIS B CORE ANTIGEN; HEPATITIS B(E) ANTIGEN; NUCLEOTIDE; VIRUS DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORE PROMOTER MUTANT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA EXTRACTION; ECHOGRAPHY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS C; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PC GENE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRECORE PROMOTER MUTANT; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STOP CODON; VIET NAM; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS MUTANT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON, TERMINATOR; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B CORE ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS B, CHRONIC; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN PRECURSORS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIETNAM;

HEPATITIS B VIRUS;

EID: 4344695975     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmv.20175     Document Type: Article

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