Are hepatitis B virus "subgenotypes" defined accurately?

Journal of Clinical Virology

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 356-360

  Pourkarim, Mahmoud Reza ^a,b   Amini Bavil Olyaee, Samad ^c   Lemey, Philippe ^a   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

Classification; Genetic distance; Hepatitis B virus; Phylogenetic analysis; Subgenotype

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRUS CLASSIFICATION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS STRAIN;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENOME, VIRAL; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 77949477016     PISSN: 13866532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcv.2010.01.015     Document Type: Article

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