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Genotyping of hepatitis E virus from Vietnam.
Intervirology - 1 Jan 2002
Hijikata Minako, Hayashi Shigeki, Trinh Ngoc Thi, Ha Le Dang, Ohara Hiroshi, Shimizu Yohko K, Keicho Naoto, Yoshikura Hiroshi
Abstract excerpt
To identify the genotype of Vietnamese isolates of human hepatitis E virus (HEV), phylogenetic analysis was performed for the open reading frame (ORF) 1 and ORF2 nucleotide sequences of the viral genome. HEV was detected by RT-PCR in 9 out of 141 sera collected from patients with a diagnosis of acute sporadic hepatitis in Hanoi, Vietnam. All of them had sequences related most closely to genotype 4. In addition,...
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