Article
Distribution of hepatitis B virus genotypes in two different pediatric populations from Argentina.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Nov 1998
Mbayed V A, López J L, Telenta P F, Palacios G, Badía I, Ferro A, Galoppo C, Campos R
Abstract excerpt
Differences in pathogenesis and the probability of becoming a chronic carrier depend on the age at which hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is acquired, ranging from 82% in infants less than 6 months of age to 15 to 30% in older children. HBV genotypes from 22 pediatric patients from two areas tha...
Topics
- Argentina
- Base Sequence
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- DNA Primers
- DNA, Viral
- Genetic Variation
- Genotype
- Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis B virus
- Hepatitis, Chronic
- Humans
- Infant
- Molecular Epidemiology
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phylogeny
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid