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Molecular characterisation of the hepatitis A virus circulating in the 2001-2005 outbreaks in Thailand.
Annals of tropical medicine and parasitology - 1 Apr 2008
Barameechai K, Sa-Nguanmoo P, Suwannakarn K, Thongmee C, Payungporn S, Chongsrisawat V, Theamboonlers A, Poovorawan Y
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In a recent study of hepatitis A virus (HAV) in Thailand, viral isolates recovered during several outbreaks of infection that occurred between 2001 and 2005 were genotyped and subjected to phylogenetic analysis. Anti-HAV IgM was detected, by ELISA, in many of the 283 serum samples that were collected from the provinces of Suphanburi, Songkhla, Chiangrai and Lampang: 40 (48.2% of those investigated), 38 (47.5%),...
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