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Molecular phylogenetic analysis of Iranian HDV complete genome.
Virus genes - 1 May 2005
Behzadian Farida, Sabahi Farzaneh, Karimi Mohsen, Sadeghizadeh Majid, Maghsoudi Nader, Forooshani Ramin Sarrami, Shahinsaz Leila
Abstract excerpt
Hepatitis D (delta) virus (HDV) is a subviral pathogen agent and a satellite of Hepatitis B virus. Three distinct genotypes are described for HDV; genotype I is distributed worldwide but other genotypes appear to be more restricted geographically. In the present study, the entire nucleotide sequence of an HDV isolate from an Iranian patient (IR-1) was obtained using twelve pairs of primers to amplify six...
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