Molecular Epidemiology of Hepatitis B Virus
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Molecular Epidemiology of Hepatitis B Virus
Although safe and effective vaccines for hepatitis B virus (HBV) have been available for nearly three decades, this virus kills at least 600,000 people annually worldwide and remains the leading global cause of chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma. Because the HBV reverse transcriptase lacks a proofreading function, many HBV genotypes, subgenotypes, mutants, and recombinan...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Korean Journal of Internal Medicine
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1226-3303
DOI: 10.3904/kjim.2011.26.3.255