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Is HBV genotyping of clinical relevance?
Acta gastro-enterologica Belgica - 1 Jan 2000
Verschuere V, Yap P S H, Fevery J
Abstract excerpt
The hepatitis B virus, as is the case of the hepatitis C virus, can be categorized in several genotypes. The genotyping of HBV is based on the nucleotide sequence divergence encoding the amino acids constituting the HBV surface proteins. Since the genotype of the hepatitis C virus is shown to be related to epidemiology and response to interferon therapy, one wonders whether this also holds for the hepatitis B...
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