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Hepatitis B virus genotypes, core promoter variants, and precore stop codon variants in patients infected chronically in North-Eastern Italy.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Jun 2006
Dal Molin Gianna, Poli Albino, Crocè Lory S, D'Agaro Pierlanfranco, Biagi Claudia, Comar Manola, Tiribelli Claudio, Campello Cesare
Abstract excerpt
The hepatitis B virus (HBV) genotypes distribution and the core promoter (CP)/precore (PC) variability were evaluated by a line probe assay in 272 patients infected chronically enrolled consecutively in an area of the North-Eastern Italy. Seven out of the eight genotypes were detected. Italian subjects (83% of the sample) were infected mainly by genotype D (73%) and A (26%); genotype F, and genotype H, were...
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