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Chronic hepatitis B and viral genotype: the clinical significance of determining HBV genotypes.
Antiviral therapy - 1 Jan 2005
Guettouche Toumy, Hnatyszyn H James
Abstract excerpt
The global health challenge posed by the hepatitis B virus (HBV) centres around the widespread distribution and the serious complications as a result of persistent infection with the virus. As with other chronic diseases mediated by pathogens such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV), clinicians are searching for epidemiological, pathological and viral characteristics of HBV infection...
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