Transmission of Hepatitis B and D Viruses in an African Rural Community

Transmission of Hepatitis B and D Viruses in an African Rural Community

This study revealed that the prevalence of HBV and HDV in a rural area of Cameroon is extremely high, underlining the pressing need for the improvement of control strategies. Systematic serological and phylogenetic analyses of HBV sequences turned out to be useful tools to identify networks of virus...

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Main Authors: Carlos Augusto Pinho-Nascimento, Martin W. Bratschi, Rene Höfer, Caroline Cordeiro Soares, Louisa Warryn, Jūlija Pečerska, Jacques C. Minyem, Izabel C. N. P. Paixão, Marcia Terezinha Baroni de Moraes, Alphonse Um Boock, Christian Niel, Gerd Pluschke, Katharina Röltgen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2018-09-01
Series:mSystems
Subjects:
hepatitis B virus
molecular epidemiology
transmission
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00120-18

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