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High proportion of subgroup A' (genotype A) among Brazilian isolates of Hepatitis B virus.
Archives of virology - 1 Jul 2004
Araujo N M, Mello F C A, Yoshida C F T, Niel C, Gomes S A
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Hepatitis B virus (HBV) genotype A has been divided recently into two subgroups, designated A-A' (genotype A excluding A') and A'. Isolates belonging to subgroup A' have been identified in Africa. A new genotyping method, based on PCR amplification of the pre-S/S genome region and subsequent restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis, was developed, that established a correlation between RFLP...
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