Characterization of mutants and splice variants of hepatitis B virus isolated from South African black hepatocellular carcinoma patients

Ph.D. thesis, Faculty of Health Sciences,University of the Witwatersrand, 2009 === Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is endemic in Africa. As many as 98% of black Africans are infected during their lives and about 10% (65 million) have chronic HBV infection, which is the cause of 70-80% of all hep...

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Main Author: Skelton, Michelle
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10539/7511