Slave trade and hepatitis B virus genotypes and subgenotypes in Haiti and Africa

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1222-1228

  Andernach, Iris E ^a   Nolte, Claudine ^b   Pape, Jean W ^b,c   Muller, Claude P ^a  

^a National Public Health Laboratory   (Luxembourg)

^b Department of Adolescent Medicine   (Haïti)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAITI; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREGNANT WOMAN; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VIRUS TYPING;

AFRICA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HAITI; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SOCIAL PROBLEMS;

EID: 68049109465     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1508.081642     Document Type: Article

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