Hepatitis B virus strains of subgenotype A2 with an identical sequence spreading rapidly from the capital region to all over Japan in patients with acute hepatitis B

Gut

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 765-773

  Tamada, Yoko ^a,b   Yatsuhashi, Hiroshi ^a,b   Masaki, Naohiko ^c   Nakamuta, Makoto ^d   Mita, Eiji ^e   Komatsu, Tatsuji ^f   Watanabe, Yukio ^g   Muro, Toyokichi ^h   Shimada, Masaaki ⁱ   Hijioka, Taizo ^j   Satoh, Takeaki ^k   Mano, Yutaka ^l   Komeda, Toshiki ^m   Takahashi, Masahiko ⁿ   Kohno, Hiroshi ^o   Ota, Hajime ^p   Hayashi, Shigeki ^q   Miyakawa, Yuzo ^r   Abiru, Seigo ^a,b   Ishibashi, Hiromi ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION NAGASAKI MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION KYUSHU MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^e OSAKA NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^f NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION YOKOHAMA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^g SAGAMIHARA NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^h National Hospital Organization   (Japan)

ⁱ NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION NAGOYA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^j MINAMI OSAKA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^k Kokura Medical Center   (Japan)

^l SENDAI CITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^m NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION KYOTO MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

ⁿ NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION TOKYO MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^o National Hospital Organization   (Japan)

^p NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION KANAZAWA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^q NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION DISASTER MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^r Miyakawa Memorial Research Foundation   (Japan)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

ACUTE HEPATITIS B; ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; VIRUS STRAIN;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84859606529     PISSN: 00175749     EISSN: 14683288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/gutjnl-2011-300832     Document Type: Article

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