Novel hepatitis B virus subgenotype A6 in African-Belgian patients

Journal of Clinical Virology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 93-96

  Pourkarim, Mahmoud Reza ^a,b   Lemey, Philippe ^a   Amini Bavil Olyaee, Samad ^c   Maes, Piet ^a   Van Ranst, Marc ^a  

^a REGA INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Belgium)

^b IRANIAN BLOOD TRANSFUSION ORGANIZATION   (Iran)

^c PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF IRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

A6; African Belgian; Full length genome; Hepatitis B virus; Novel subgenotype

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; BELGIUM; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DISTANCE; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN;

BELGIUM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONGO; DNA, VIRAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; RWANDA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 72149091716     PISSN: 13866532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcv.2009.09.032     Document Type: Article

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