Possible new hepatitis B virus genotype, southeast Asia

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1777-1780

  Olinger, Christophe M ^a   Jutavijittum, Prapan ^b   Hübschen, Judith M ^a   Yousukh, Amnat ^b   Samountry, Bounthome ^c   Thammavong, Te ^d   Toriyama, Kan ^e   Muller, Claude P ^a  

^a LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF HEALTH   (Luxembourg)

^b CHIANG MAI UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^c National University of Lao   (Laos)

^d Nagasaki University ^*  (Laos)

^e NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SOUTHEAST ASIA; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

BASE SEQUENCE; BLOOD DONORS; GENOME, VIRAL; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMANS; LAOS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 55549083871     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1411.080437     Document Type: Article

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