Strong association between genotype F and hepatitis B virus (HBV) e antigen-negative variants among HBV-infected Argentinean blood donors

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 5015-5021

  França, Paulo H C ^a,c   González, Jorge E ^d   Munné, M Silvina ^d   Brandão, Larissa H ^b   Gouvea, Vera S ^a   Sablon, Erwin ^e   Vanderborght, Bart O M ^a,b,e  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b Inst de Diagn Molec Theranostica   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JOINVILLE REGION   (Brazil)

^d Administracion Nacional de Laboratorios E Institutos de Salud Dr Carlos G Malbran   (Argentina)

^e INNOGENETICS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; CYTOSINE; GUANINE; HEPATITIS B(E) ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS E ANTIGEN; NUCLEOTIDE;

ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SOUTH AMERICA; STOP CODON; VIRUS STRAIN;

ADULT; ARGENTINA; BLOOD DONORS; CHILD; CODON, TERMINATOR; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B CORE ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS B E ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMANS; INFANT; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PREVALENCE; PROTEIN PRECURSORS;

DNA VIRUSES; HEPATITIS B VIRUS;

EID: 8644278827     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.11.5015-5021.2004     Document Type: Article

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