Journal:
:archives of clinical infectious diseases
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maryam vaezjalali department of microbiology, faculty of medicine, shahid beheshti university of medical sciences, tehran, ir iran
hanieh rezaee department of microbiology, faculty of medicine, shahid beheshti university of medical sciences, tehran, ir iran; urology and nephrology research center, shahid beheshti university of medical sciences, tehran, ir iran
hosein goudarzi department of microbiology, faculty of medicine, shahid beheshti university of medical sciences, tehran, ir iran; department of microbiology, faculty of medicine, shahid beheshti university of medical sciences, tehran, ir iran. tel.:+98-2123872556, fax: +98-2122439964
conclusions: premature stop codon in the s gene was observed in all countries with evaluable hbv genome sequences. co-existence of detectable hepatitis b surface antigen (hbsag) and s gene premature stop codon was inconsistent with other studies. investigations on yield truncated hbsag are suggested to determine if they can affect elisa hbsag results. background: we have previously reported on ...
