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Recombination in the genesis and evolution of hepatitis B virus genotypes.
Journal of virology - 1 Dec 2005
Simmonds Peter, Midgley Sofie
Abstract excerpt
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is widely distributed in both human and ape populations throughout the world and is a major cause of human morbidity and mortality. HBV variants are currently classified into the human genotypes A to H and species-associated chimpanzee and gibbon/orangutan groups. To examine the role of recombination in the evolution of HBV, large-scale data retrieval and automated phylogenetic...
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