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Genotyping of hepatitis B virus isolates from Lahaul and Spiti district in Himachal Pradesh, India.
Indian journal of gastroenterology : official journal of the Indian Society of Gastroenterology - 1 May 2018
Sharma Brij, Katiyar Harshita, Barall Deepesh, Sharma Neetu, Agnihotry Shikha, Goel Amit, Aggarwal Rakesh
Abstract excerpt
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) has several genotypes. In the Indian population, genotypes A and D are the most frequent. HBV infection is hyper-endemic in the Lahaul and Spiti district in Himachal Pradesh; however, the virus genotype in this area is not known. We sequenced a 398-nucleotide segment of HBV genome that included parts of pre-S1/S2 and polymerase genes from 17 specimens from this district, and assigned a...
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