High diversity of hepatitis B virus genotypes in Panamanian blood donors: a molecular analysis of new variants.

Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) is an infectious agent that causes more than half of the cases of liver disease and cancer in the world. Globally there are around 250 million people chronically infected with this virus. Despite 16% of the cases of liver disease in Central America are caused by HBV, the info...

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Main Authors: Alexander A Martínez, Yamitzel Y Zaldivar, CSS-NAT Group, Zoila De Castillo, Alma Y Ortiz, Yaxelis Mendoza, Juan Cristina, Juan M Pascale
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/25093674/?tool=EBI