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Application of hepatitis B virus genotyping and phylogenetic analysis in intrafamilial transmission of hepatitis B virus.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America - 1 Dec 2005
Lin Chih-Lin, Kao Jia-Horng, Chen Bing-Fang, Chen Pei-Jer, Lai Ming-Yang, Chen Ding-Shinn
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BACKGROUND: Infection with hepatitis B virus (HBV) in early life frequently results in persistent infection, and clustering of the chronic infection within a family is common. However, the relative contribution of perinatal mother-to-infant transmission or early horizontal transmission to the intrafamilial clustering of HBV infection remains unclear. Therefore, we used HBV genotyping and phylogenetic analysis to...
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