Complete Sequencing of a Gibbon Hepatitis B Virus Genome Reveals a Unique Genotype Distantly Related to the Chimpanzee Hepatitis B Virus
✍ Scribed by HELÉNE NORDER; JAMES W. EBERT; HOWARD A. FIELDS; ISA K. MUSHAHWAR; LARS O. MAGNIUS
- Book ID
- 112270960
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 237 KB
- Volume
- 218
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0042-6822
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