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Epidemiologic and virologic characteristics of hepatitis B virus genotype B having the recombination with genotype C.
Gastroenterology - 1 Apr 2003
Sugauchi Fuminaka, Orito Etsuro, Ichida Takafumi, Kato Hideaki, Sakugawa Hiroshi, Kakumu Shinichi, Ishida Takafumi, Chutaputti Anuchit, Lai Ching-Ling, Gish Robert G, Ueda Ryuzo, Miyakawa Yuzo, Mizokami Masashi
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND & AIMS: Hepatitis B virus (HBV) isolates of genotype B (HBV/B) with or without the recombination with genotype C over the precore region plus core gene have been reported. METHODS: All the 41 HBV/B isolates having the recombination with genotype C (HBV/Ba) possessed the nucleotide 1838 of A in contrast to that of G in all 29 of those without the recombination (HBV/Bj). Taking advantage of this single...
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