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GENOMIC ANALYSIS OF HEPATITIS B VIRUS STRAINS INFECTING ROMANIAN PATIENTS.
Roumanian archives of microbiology and immunology - 1 Jan 2000
Dinu Sorin, Târdei Graţiela, Ceausu Emanoil, Moţoc Adriana, Oprea Cristiana, Ungureanu Eugenia, Ene Luminiţa, Duiculescu Dan, Cioflec Dana Brehar, Oprişan Gabriela
Abstract excerpt
Chronic hepatitis B is widespread and represents an important cause of morbidity and mortality due to the evolution to cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. This study was designed to improve the national laboratory surveillance of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, focusing on genomic analysis of isolates from Romanian patients. Sera from ten patients with HBV were collected and analyzed. Phylogenetic analysis...
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