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Novel hepatitis B virus subgenotype A6 in African-Belgian patients.
Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology - 1 Jan 2010
Pourkarim Mahmoud Reza, Lemey Philippe, Amini-Bavil-Olyaee Samad, Maes Piet, Van Ranst Marc
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Genome diversity of hepatitis B virus (HBV) is prominent among DNA viruses; which, allowed the virus to be genetically classified into eight genotypes and several subgenotypes. OBJECTIVE: To introduce and to characterize a novel subgenotype HBV, classified as A6. STUDY DESIGN: HBV full-length genomes were isolated and sequenced from three African-Belgian patients chronically infected with the virus....
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