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Patterns of hepatitis b virus immune escape and pol/rt mutations across clinical cohorts of patients with genotypes a, e and occult hepatitis b infection in Nigeria: A multi-centre study.
Virulence - 1 Dec 2023
Osasona Oluwadamilola G, Oguntoye Oluwatosin O, Arowosaye Abiola O, Abdulkareem Lukman O, Adewumi Moses O, Happi Christian, Folarin Onikepe
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Hepatitis B virus (HBV) immune escape and Pol/RT mutations account for HBV immunoprophylactic, therapeutic, and diagnostic failure globally. Little is known about circulating HBV immune escape and Pol/RT mutants in Nigeria. This study focused on narrowing the knowledge gap of the pattern and prevalence of the HBV mutants across clinical cohorts of infected patients in southwestern Nigeria. Ninety-five enrollees...
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