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Phylogenetic and drug- and vaccine-resistance profiles of Hepatitis B Virus among children with HIV co-infection in Pakistan.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Nov 2022
Farooqui Nida, Mir Fatima, Siddiqui Dilsha, Hotwani Aneeta, Nathwani Apsara Ali, Mahmood Syed Faisal, Sadiq Kamran, Kayani Hammad Afzal, Sheikh Saqib Ali, Shah Sharaf Ali, Ferrand Rashida Abbas, Abidi Syed Hani
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INTRODUCTION: HIV-1 and hepatitis B virus (HBV) share common routes of transmission and therefore co-infection is common. In 2019, an HIV-1 outbreak that resulted in >1000 children being infected, predominantly through nosocomial transmission, occurred in Sindh, Pakistan. We conducted a phylogenetic and drug resistance analysis of the HBV Reverse Transcriptase (RT) gene in children with HIV-1 and HBV...
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