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Hepatitis B virus genotype C prevails among chronic carriers of the virus in Korea.
Journal of Korean medical science - 1 Oct 2005
Bae Si Hyun, Yoon Seung Kew, Jang Jeong Won, Kim Chang Wook, Nam Soon Woo, Choi Jong Young, Kim Boo Sung, Park Young Min, Suzuki Seiji, Sugauchi Fuminaka, Mizokami Masashi
Abstract excerpt
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is one of the major causative agents of chronic liver diseases in Korea. HBV has been classified into 8 genotypes by a divergence of >8% in the entire genomic sequence, and have distinct geographic distributions. There are limited data on the relevance between HBV genotypes and clinical outcomes in Korea. To investigate the clinical feature relating to HBV genotype in Korea, a total 120...
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