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[Genetic diversity of a rare hepatitis A virus genotype].
Pathologie-biologie - 1 Feb 2011
Desbois D, Couturier E, Graube A, Letort M-J, Dussaix E, Roque-Afonso A-M
Abstract excerpt
PURPOSE OF THE STUDY: Very few is known on genotype II hepatitis A virus (HAV) since it is rarely isolated. From 2002 to 2007, the French observatory of HAV identified six sub-genotype IIA strains of which one from a patient having travelled to West Africa. To investigate the possible African origin of sub-genotype IIA, we determined its prevalence among French travellers in 2008 and characterised its genetic...
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