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Distribution of hepatitis B virus genotypes among American blood donors determined with a PreS2 epitope enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay kit.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Mar 2002
Moriya Takashi, Kuramoto Isamu K, Yoshizawa Hiroshi, Holland Paul V
Abstract excerpt
We genotyped 418 sera from volunteer blood donors from two large, regional blood centers in the United States who were HBsAg positive by an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). The HBV genotypes were determined by a serological method using a preS2 epitope ELISA kit (Institute of Immunology, Tokyo, Japan) with monoclonal antibodies. Of the 418 samples, the genotypes of 320 could be determined (76.6%). One...
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