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Molecular analysis of hepatitis A virus strains obtained from patients with acute hepatitis A in Mongolia, 2004-2013.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Apr 2016
Tsatsralt-Od Bira, Baasanjav Nachin, Nyamkhuu Dulmaa, Ohnishi Hiroshi, Takahashi Masaharu, Kobayashi Tominari, Nagashima Shigeo, Nishizawa Tsutomu, Okamoto Hiroaki
Abstract excerpt
Despite the high endemicity of hepatitis A virus (HAV) in Mongolia, the genetic information on those HAV strains is limited. Serum samples obtained from 935 patients with acute hepatitis in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia during 2004-2013 were tested for the presence of HAV RNA using reverse transcription-PCR with primers targeting the VP1-2B region (481 nucleotides, primer sequences at both ends excluded). Overall, 180...
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