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A rapid and reliable genotyping method for hepatitis B virus genotypes (A-H) using type-specific primers.
Journal of virological methods - 1 Apr 2012
Farazmandfar Touraj, Haghshenas Mohammad Reza, Janbabai Ghasem, Azadeh Hossein, Sharifian Rayka, Taghipour Mehrdad
Abstract excerpt
Eight genotypes of HBV (A-H) are recognized. A simple, rapid, and more specific genotyping system for HBV involving PCR using type-specific primers is described. The complete genomes of 234 human HBV strains for all the genotypes submitted to GenBank were aligned. The type-specific primers were designed based on the differences in the sizes of bands for eight genotypes in two sets. This genotyping system was...
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