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Distribution of hepatitis B virus genotypes in blood donors and chronically infected patients in a tertiary care hospital in southern India.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America - 1 May 2004
Vivekanandan Perumal, Abraham Priya, Sridharan Gopalan, Chandy George, Daniel Dolly, Raghuraman Sukanya, Daniel Hubert Darius, Subramaniam Thenmozhi
Abstract excerpt
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) genotypes differ in their potential for causing disease. Consecutive patients with chronic HBV infection (CHBV) (n=122) and blood donors (n=67) positive for hepatitis B surface antigen and HBV DNA were genotyped using polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment-length polymorphism. The ratio of male to female subjects was significantly higher in the blood donor group than in the group...
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