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Identification of Novel A2/C2 Inter-Genotype Recombinants of Hepatitis B Virus from a Korean Chronic Patient Co-Infected with Both Genotype A2 and C2.
International journal of molecular sciences - 30 Mar 2017
Lee So-Young, Lee Seung-Hee, Kim Ji-Eun, Kim Hong, Kim Kijeong, Kook Yoon-Hoh, Kim Bum-Joon
Abstract excerpt
Nearly all cases of Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infections in South Korea have the C2 genotype. Here, we have identified a chronically infected patient who was co-infected with HBV of both the A2 and C2 genotypes by screening 135 Korean chronically infected patients using direct sequencing protocols targeting the 1032-bp polymerase reverse transcriptase (RT) region. Further polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-cloning...
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