Article
Distribution of Hepatitis B Genotypes Among Hepatitis B Patients Visiting Decode Genomics Research Center
2021-07-01
Abstract excerpt
The hepatitis B virus (HBV) is non-cytopathic, hepatotropic and enveloped virus which causes Hepatitis B and infects the liver causing inflammation and hepatocellular necrosis. The genome sequence database shows that HBV has ten genetic diversities (A-J) ten in which the HBV genotypes, I and J are the new one. Three major genotypes of HBV (A, C and D) were found in Nepal. Despite being a low prevalence, Nepal has...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 5369cd0d-b606-5454-bf8d-5b90481216b7
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-674606/v1
