When should "I" consider a new hepatitis B virus genotype?

Journal of Virology

Volumn 82, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 8241-8242

  Kurbanov, Fuat ^a   Tanaka, Yasuhito ^a   Kramvis, Anna ^b   Simmonds, Peter ^c   Mizokami, Masashi ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; LETTER; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIET NAM;

DNA, VIRAL; GENOME, VIRAL; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B CORE ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; VIETNAM; VIROLOGY;

HEPATITIS B VIRUS;

EID: 49149128549     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00793-08     Document Type: Letter

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