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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
Abstract excerpt
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 contiguous overlapping set of cDNA clones representing the entire viral genome. Our studies have led to a model for the...
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