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Epidemiological history and genomic characterization of non-D1 HBV strains identified in Iran.
Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology - 1 Feb 2015
Pineda-Peña Andrea-Clemencia, Faria Nuno Rodrigues, Mina Thomas, Amini-Bavil-Olyaee Samad, Alavian Seyed Moayed, Lemey Philippe, Maes Piet, Van Ranst Marc, Pourkarim Mahmoud Reza
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Hepatitis B virus (HBV) has been classified into eight genotypes and forty subgenotypes. Genotype D of HBV is the most worldwide distributed genotype and HBV subgenotype D1 has been isolated from Iranian patients. OBJECTIVE: To characterize for the first time complete genomes of recently emerged non-D1 strains in Iran. STUDY DESIGN: HBV complete genomes isolated from 9 Iranian HBV carriers were...
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