Article
Genotyping of Tunisian hepatitis B virus isolates based on the sequencing of preS2 and S regions.
Microbes and infection - 1 May 2000
Borchani-Chabchoub I, Gargouri A, Mokdad-Gargouri R
Abstract excerpt
The S nucleotide sequences of five hepatitis B virus strains isolated from plasma samples of Tunisian patients with chronic hepatitis B were determined; the preS2 region of three of them were sequenced. According to the comparative analysis of S peptide sequences with the reported sequences in the database bank, the five hepatitis B strains were shown to be related to the D genotypic group, subtype ayw. The...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- DNA, Viral
- Genotype
- Hepatitis B Surface Antigens
- Hepatitis B virus
- Hepatitis B, Chronic
- Humans
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Protein Precursors
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
