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Hepatitis B virus genotypes in eastern Azerbaijan, Northwest Iran.
Archives of Iranian medicine - 1 Jul 2012
Mohammadnejad Leila, Farajnia Safar, Parivar Kazem, Naghili Behrooz, Yousefzadeh Kheirnagsh Rana
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BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to investigate, for the first time, the genotype of hepatitis B virus (HBV) among hepatitis patients in Eastern Azerbaijan Province, Northwest Iran. METHODS: A total of 100 HBV-infected patients were enrolled in this study. Among these, 40 samples were positive for both HBsAg and HBeAg, whereas 60 samples were HBsAg positive and HBe Agnegative. Patients' sera were subjected...
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