Hepatitis E virus. Comparison of 'New and Old World' isolates.

doi:10.1016/0168-8278(91)90050-l

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Hepatitis E virus. Comparison of 'New and Old World' isolates.

Journal of hepatology - 1 Jan 1991

Reyes G R, Huang C C, Yarbough P O, Tam A W

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The etiologic agent responsible for epidemics of enterically-transmitted non-A, non-B hepatitis has been molecularly characterized as the hepatitis E virus (HEV). The cloning of a portion of the Burma strain of HEV (HEV(B); 'Old World' strain) has been described together with the isolation of a c...

Topics

Amino Acid Sequence
Cloning, Molecular
Genetic Variation
Genome, Viral
Geography
Hepatitis E virus
Humans
Molecular Sequence Data
Open Reading Frames
Probability
Protein Conformation
RNA, Viral
Viral Proteins

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