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A male patient with severe acute hepatitis who was domestically infected with a genotype H hepatitis B virus in Iwate, Japan.
Journal of gastroenterology - 1 Feb 2007
Kumagai Ichiro, Abe Koichi, Oikawa Takayoshi, Sato Akihiro, Sato Shinichiro, Endo Ryujin, Takikawa Yasuhiro, Suzuki Kazuyuki, Masuda Tomoyuki, Sainokami Shigehiko, Endo Kazunori, Takahashi Masaharu, Okamoto Hiroaki
Abstract excerpt
Although all eight genotypes of hepatitis B virus (HBV) strains are circulating in Japan, no cases of acute hepatitis with foreign HBV strains of genotype H have thus far been reported in Japan. Here, we report a 35-year-old Japanese patient with severe acute hepatitis who was domestically infect...
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