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THE NEED FOR HBV GENOTYPING: A COST-EFFICIENT APPROACH.
Revista medico-chirurgicala a Societatii de Medici si Naturalisti din Iasi - 1 Jan 2000
Luca A S, Ursu Ramona Gabriela, Teuşan Teodora, Luca Cătălina Mihaela, Pleşca Claudia Elena, Iancu Luminiţa Smaranda
Abstract excerpt
The outcome of chronic HBV infection is variable; approximately one half of individuals transition to an inactive carrier state, 30% progress to cirrhosis, and the remainder to chronic hepatitis. Ten different HBV genotypes and many subtypes have been identified with distinct geographical distributions. Over the years, a lot of studies presented the efficiency of different genotyping methods; for this reason we...
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