Molecular characterization of HBV strains circulating among the treatment-naive HIV/HBV co-infected patients of eastern india

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Saha, Debraj ^a   Pal, Ananya ^a   Biswas, Avik ^a   Panigrahi, Rajesh ^c   Sarkar, Neelakshi ^a   Das, Dipanwita ^a   Sarkar, Jayeeta ^b   Guha, Subhasish Kamal ^b   Saha, Bibhuti ^b   Chakrabarti, Sekhar ^d   Chakravarty, Runu ^a  

^a INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (India)

^b CALCUTTA SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (India)

^c TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHOLERA AND ENTERIC DISEASES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; HEPATITIS B CORE ANTIGEN; HEPATITIS B(E) ANTIGEN; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; SERINE; THREONINE; VALINE;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PROMOTER REGION; T LYMPHOCYTE; VIRUS CHARACTERIZATION; VIRUS ENVELOPE; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS S GENE; VIRUS STRAIN;

ADULT; COINFECTION; FEMALE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS B CORE ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS B E ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS B, CHRONIC; HIV; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR TYPING; PHYLOGENY; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; VIRAL CORE PROTEINS; VIRAL ENVELOPE PROTEINS;

EID: 84896509980     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0090432     Document Type: Article

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