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Is there any value to hepatitis B virus genotype analysis?
Current gastroenterology reports - 1 Feb 2012
Tanwar Sudeep, Dusheiko Geoffrey
Abstract excerpt
Hepatitis B may cause a varying spectrum of diseases ranging from an asymptomatic or mild anicteric acute illness, to severe or fulminant hepatitis. Similarly, the outcome of chronic hepatitis B is variable. Viral factors associated with outcome of chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection include hepatitis B e antigen status, HBV DNA, genotype, and HBV variants. HBV genotypes and subgenotypes have been...
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