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African, Amerindian and European hepatitis B virus strains circulate on the Caribbean Island of Martinique.

The Journal of general virology - 1 Oct 2013

Brichler Ségolène, Lagathu Gisèle, Chekaraou Mariama Abdou, Le Gal Frédéric, Edouard André, Dény Paul, Césaire Raymond, Gordien Emmanuel

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Ten Hepatitis B virus (HBV) genotypes, as well as numerous subgenotypes, have been described in well-characterized ethnogeographical populations. Martinique has been at a crossroads between Africa, Europe, India and the Americas because of the slave trade (17th-19th centuries), followed by an important immigration of Indian and West African workers. In this work, we aimed to study the molecular epidemiology of...

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PMID: 23884366
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.055459-0

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