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Molecular epidemiology of hepatitis B virus variants in nonhuman primates.
Journal of virology - 1 Jun 2000
Grethe S, Heckel J O, Rietschel W, Hufert F T
Abstract excerpt
We characterized hepatitis B virus (HBV) isolates from sera of 21 hepatitis B virus surface antigen-positive apes, members of the families Pongidae and Hylobatidae (19 gibbon spp., 1 chimpanzee, and 1 gorilla). Sera originate from German, French, Thai, and Vietnamese primate-keeping institutions. To estimate the phylogenetic relationships, we sequenced two genomic regions, one located within the pre-S1/pre-S2...
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