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Genotype mixtures of hepatitis B virus in patients treated with interferon.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 15 Sept 2002
Hannoun Charles, Krogsgaard Kim, Horal Peter, Lindh Magnus
Abstract excerpt
Little is known about coinfection among several hepatitis B virus (HBV) genotypes, although previous reports of recombination and genotype shifts indicate that this should occur. In the present study, we designed a method to identify mixtures of genotype A and another genotype, regardless of whether one of them predominates. Using this method, signs of genotypic coinfection were found in 20 (67%) of 30 hepatitis...
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