Hepatitis B virus and hepatitis delta virus genotypes in outbreaks of fulminant hepatitis (Labrea black fever) in the western Brazilian Amazon region

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 90, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2638-2643

  Gomes Gouvea M S ^a,b   Soares, M C P ^b   Bensabath, G ^b   de Carvalho Mello, I M V G ^a,c   Brito, E M F ^b   Souza, O S C ^b   Queiroz, A T L ^a   Carrilho, F J ^a   Pinho, J R R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO EVANDRO CHAGAS   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO BUTANTAN   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENE CLUSTER; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS DELTA VIRUS; HEPATITIS DELTA VIRUS TYPE 3; HEPATITIS F VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MIXED INFECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTH AMERICA; TISSUE SECTION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VIRUS STRAIN; WESTERN AMAZON; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DELTA AGENT HEPATITIS; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS; HEPATITIS B; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LIVER; MOLECULAR GENETICS; VIROLOGY;

DELTAVIRUS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS DELTA VIRUS;

BRAZIL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, VIRAL; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS D; HEPATITIS DELTA VIRUS; HUMANS; LIVER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 70350438583     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: 14652099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.013615-0     Document Type: Article

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