Hepatitis A virus subgenotypes dissemination during a community outbreak in a surrounding region of Rio de Janeiro

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 254-258

  Dos Santos, Débora Regina Lopes ^a   Villar, Livia Melo ^a   De Paula, Vanessa Salete ^a   De Lima, Gerson Silva ^b   Gaspar, Ana Maria Coimbra ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b Instituto de Technologia em Imunobiologicos   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Co circulation of subgenotypes IA and IB; Hepatitis A virus; Molecular epidemiology

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS A VIRUS;

EID: 46749116462     PISSN: 00740276     EISSN: 16788060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0074-02762008000300005     Document Type: Article

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