Hepatitis B virus infection from an evolutionary point of view: How viral, host, and environmental factors shape genotypes and subgenotypes

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1199-1207

  Araujo, Natalia M ^a   Waizbort, Ricardo ^a   Kay, Alan ^b  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b CENTRE DE RECHERCHE EN CANCÉROLOGIE DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

Genotypes and subgenotypes; Hepatitis B virus; Modes of transmission; Natural selection; Virulence

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B(E) ANTIGEN; MESSENGER RNA;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EARLY CHILDHOOD INTERVENTION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; SPECIES ENDEMICITY; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS PARTICLE; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS B, CHRONIC; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; VIRULENCE;

HEPATITIS B VIRUS;

EID: 79960387791     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: 15677257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2011.04.017     Document Type: Review

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