Hepatitis B virus (HBV) genotypes in Egyptian pediatric cancer patients with acute and chronic active HBV infection

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>There are eight genotypes of hepatitis B virus (A-H) and subgenotypes are recognized. Genotyping can be accomplished based on a partial sequence of HBV genome such as the pre-S or S gene. Several methods have been developed and used...

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Main Authors: Khaled Mohsen M, El-Sayed Manal H, Hassan Zeinab K, Mohamed Nahed I, Hafez Mohamed M, Zekri Abdel-Rahman N, Mansour Tarek
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2007-07-01
Series:Virology Journal
Online Access:http://www.virologyj.com/content/4/1/74