## Abstract The hepatitis B virus (HBV) genotypes distribution and the core promoter (CP)/precore (PC) variability were evaluated by a line probe assay in 272 patients infected chronically enrolled consecutively in an area of the North‐Eastern Italy. Seven out of the eight genotypes were detected.
Hepatitis D and B virus genotypes in chronically infected patients from the Eastern Amazon Basin
✍ Scribed by Michele Soares Gomes-Gouvêa; Manoel do Carmo Pereira Soares; Isabel Maria Vicente Guedes de Carvalho Mello; Elisabete Maria Figueiredo Brito; Lizomar de Jesus Maués Pereira Moia; Gilberta Bensabath; Heloisa Marceliano Nunes; Flair José Carrilho; João Renato Rebello Pinho
- Book ID
- 116182080
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 777 KB
- Volume
- 106
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0001-706X
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