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Influence of HIV-associated degree of immune suppression on molecular heterogeneity of hepatitis B virus among HIV co-infected patients.
Virology - 5 Feb 2013
Pal Ananya, Panigrahi Rajesh, Biswas Avik, Datta Sibnarayan, Sarkar Neelakshi, Guha Subhashish Kamal, Saha Bibhuti, Banerjee Arup, Chakrabarti Sekhar, Chakravarty Runu
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We have investigated the molecular diversity of Hepatitis B virus (HBV) among the HIV co-infected patients from eastern-India. HBsAg/HBV-DNA positive subjects (n=73) from 874 HIV-infected patients were analyzed by sequencing followed by genetic diversity quantification. HBV/genotype-D and HBV/sugenotype-D2 were predominant. HBV/D2 isolates from patients with low CD4 count manifested significantly lower...
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