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Genotyping the hepatitis B virus with a fragment of the HBV DNA polymerase gene in Shenyang, China.
Virology journal - 22 Jun 2011
Ma Ying, Ding Yang, Juan Feng, Dou Xiao Guang
Abstract excerpt
The hepatitis B virus (HBV) has been classified into eight genotypes (A-H) based on intergenotypic divergence of at least 8% in the complete nucleotide sequence or more than 4% in the S gene. To facilitate the investigation of the relationship between the efficacy of drug treatment and the mutation with specific genotype of HBV, we have established a new genotyping strategy based on a fragment of the HBV DNA...
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