Unique hepatitis B virus subgenotype in a primitive tribal community in eastern India

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 4063-4071

  Ghosh, Sumantra ^a   Banerjee, Priyanka ^a   RoyChoudhury, Arindam ^b   Sarkar, Sumanta ^a   Ghosh, Alip ^a   Santra, Amal ^a   Banerjee, Soma ^a   Das, Kausik ^a   Dwibedi, Bhagirathi ^c   Kar, Shantanu K ^c   Rao, Vikas Gangadhar ^d   Bhat, Jyothi T ^d   Singh, Neeru ^d   Chowdhury, Abhijit ^a   Datta, Simanti ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF POST GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c REGIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE ICMR   (India)

^d Regional Medical Research Centre for Tribals   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; AMINO ACID; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; VIRUS DNA;

ADULT; AGED; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; DNA ISOLATION; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GROUPS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; YOUNG ADULT;

HEPATITIS B VIRUS;

EID: 78049494199     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01174-10     Document Type: Article

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