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M I Micalessi1, L De Cock, R Vranckx.
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Several studies have demonstrated that pathogenic and therapeutic differences exist among hepatitis B virus (HBV) genotypes. Therefore, this study established the prevalence of different HBV genotypes in 128 Belgian patients with chronic HBV infection. The prevalences of genotypes A and D, and mixed genotypes A and D, were 53%, 37% and 8%, respectively, for a group of blood donors, and 54%, 31% and 9%, respectively, for a group of patients from the gastroenterology units. The results indicated that genotypes A and D are the predominant genotypes in Belgian patients with chronic HBV infection.Entities:
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Year: 2005 PMID： 15882202 DOI： 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2005.01144.x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Clin Microbiol Infect ISSN： 1198-743X Impact factor: 8.067