Article
Detection of Hepatitis B virus subgenotype A1 in a Quilombo community from Maranhão, Brazil.
Virology journal - 25 Aug 2011
Alvarado-Mora Mónica V, Botelho Livia, Gomes-Gouvêa Michele S, de Souza Vanda F, Nascimento Maria C, Pannuti Claudio S, Carrilho Flair J, Pinho João Rr
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The Brazilian population is mainly descendant from European colonizers, Africans and Native Americans. Some Afro-descendants lived in small isolated communities since the slavery period. The epidemiological status of HBV infection in Quilombos communities from northeast of Brazil rema...
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