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Species association of hepatitis B virus (HBV) in non-human apes; evidence for recombination between gorilla and chimpanzee variants.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Lyons Sinéad, Sharp Colin, LeBreton Matthew, Djoko Cyrille F, Kiyang John A, Lankester Felix, Bibila Tafon G, Tamoufé Ubald, Fair Joseph, Wolfe Nathan D, Simmonds Peter
Abstract excerpt
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infections are widely distributed in humans, infecting approximately one third of the world's population. HBV variants have also been detected and genetically characterised from Old World apes; Gorilla gorilla (gorilla), Pan troglodytes (chimpanzee), Pongo pygmaeus (orang-utan), Nomascus nastusus and Hylobates pileatus (gibbons) and from the New World monkey, Lagothrix lagotricha (woolly...
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