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Hepatitis B virus genotype D strains from Estonia share sequence similarity with strains from Siberia and may specify ayw4.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Oct 2004
Tallo Tatjana, Norder Helene, Tefanova Valentina, Krispin Tõnu, Priimägi Ludmilla, Mukomolov Sergey, Mikhailov Mikhail, Magnius Lars O
Abstract excerpt
The genotypes and subtypes of 205 HBV isolates collected during 1989-2002 in Estonia and 14 other regions of the former USSR were determined by sequencing and phylogenetic analysis of the S gene. The in Europe prevailing genotypes, A and D, were also circulating in the whole territory of the former USSR including Estonia and accounted for 18.5 and 81% of the strains, respectively. All genotype A strains specified...
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