Description of a new hepatitis B virus C6 subgenotype found in the Papua province of Indonesia and suggested renaming of a tentative C6 subgenotype found in the Philippines as subgenotype C7

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 3068-3069

  Cavinta, Lolita ^a   Cao, Guangwen ^b   Schaefer, Stephan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES MANILA   (Philippines)

^b SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS C6; INDONESIA; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PHILIPPINES; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS CLASSIFICATION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS TYPING;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, VIRAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMANS; INDONESIA; PHILIPPINES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

HEPATITIS B VIRUS;

EID: 69949092895     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01079-09     Document Type: Letter

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