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Chronic hepatitis delta virus infection with genotype IIb variant is correlated with progressive liver disease.
The Journal of general virology - 1 Dec 2003
Watanabe Hideki, Nagayama Kazuyoshi, Enomoto Nobuyuki, Chinzei Ryoko, Yamashiro Tsuyoshi, Izumi Namiki, Yatsuhashi Hiroshi, Nakano Tatsunori, Robertson Betty H, Nakasone Hiroki, Sakugawa Hiroshi, Watanabe Mamoru
Abstract excerpt
We determined the sequence of the hepatitis delta virus (HDV) genome in 40 Japanese patients, most of whom were from the Miyako Islands, Okinawa, Japan. Consensus sequences from 33 HDV full genomes out of a total of 40 patients were determined by directly sequencing four partially overlapping PCR products. Phylogenetic tree analysis classified these 33 complete HDV genomes as HDV genotype I (two patients),...
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