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Subgenotype D5, BCP and MHR mutations in hepatic complications among hepatitis B virus infected patients from Orissa, India.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Dec 2012
Panigrahi Rajesh, Biswas Avik, Banerjee Arup, Singh Shivaram Prasad, Panigrahi Manas K, Roque-Afonso Anne Marie, Das Haribhakti Seba, Mahapatra Pradip K, Chakrabarti Sekhar, Chakravarty Runu
Abstract excerpt
The study was undertaken to investigate the clinical implications of hepatitis B virus (HBV) genotypes, basal core promoter (BCP), precore (PC) and surface gene mutations in HBV infected patients from Orissa, southeastern India. HBV infections were identified by serology testing and HBV DNA amplification by polymerase chain reaction among the 152 patients. After sequencing, surface gene mutation were studied by...
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