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Identification of a natural intergenotypic recombinant hepatitis delta virus genotype 1 and 2 in Vietnamese HBsAg-positive patients.
Journal of viral hepatitis - 1 Jan 2015
Sy B T, Nguyen H M, Toan N L, Song L H, Tong H V, Wolboldt C, Binh V Q, Kremsner P G, Velavan T P, Bock C-T
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Hepatitis D virus (HDV) infection is acquired as a co- /superinfection of Hepatitis B virus (HBV) and can modulate the pathophysiology of chronic hepatitis B and related liver diseases including hepatocellular carcinoma. Among the eight distinct HDV genotypes reported, relatively few studies have attempted to investigate the prevalence of HDV mixed genotypes and RNA recombination of HDV. With a recorded...
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