Identification of Novel A2/C2 Inter-Genotype Recombinants of Hepatitis B Virus from a Korean Chronic Patient Co-Infected with Both Genotype A2 and C2

Nearly all cases of Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infections in South Korea have the C2 genotype. Here, we have identified a chronically infected patient who was co-infected with HBV of both the A2 and C2 genotypes by screening 135 Korean chronically infected patients using direct sequencing protocols tar...

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Main Authors: So-Young Lee, Seung-Hee Lee, Ji-Eun Kim, Hong Kim, Kijeong Kim, Yoon-Hoh Kook, Bum-Joon Kim
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2017-03-01
Series:International Journal of Molecular Sciences
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/18/4/737