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Molecular epidemiology and variation of hepatitis B in recent immigrant families to Australia.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Sept 1998
McIntosh E D, Givney R, Zhang S S, Couroucé A M, Burgess M, Cossart Y E
Abstract excerpt
Natural variation in hepatitis B virus (HBV) was studied in asymptomatic carriers originating from countries of high endemicity. HBV DNA was detected by dot blot and/or polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in 34 of the 184 members of 22 new immigrant families who agreed to be tested after one of their children had been found to have current or past hepatitis B in a school survey. PCR products from both the S and...
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