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Nucleic acid sequence analysis of basal core promoter/precore/core region of hepatitis B virus isolated from chronic carriers of the virus from Kolkata, eastern India: low frequency of mutation in the precore region.
Intervirology - 1 Jan 2005
Banerjee Arup, Banerjee Soma, Chowdhury Abhijit, Santra Amal, Chowdhury Sujit, Roychowdhury Susanta, Panda Chinmoy Kumar, Bhattacharya Sujit Kumar, Chakravarty Runu
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OBJECTIVE: The aim of the present study was to characterize the predominant hepatitis B virus (HBV) strains and their molecular variants present in the HBV isolates of the different genotypes found among the chronic carriers of the virus in our community. METHODS: Precore/core and core promoter regions of HBV DNA were amplified by polymerase chain reaction and then subjected to direct sequencing. Of the 64...
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