Possible new hepatitis B virus genotype, southeast Asia.

ABSTRACT: We conducted a phylogenetic analysis of 19 hepatitis B virus strains from Laos that belonged to 2 subgenotypes of a new genotype I. This emerging new genotype likely developed outside Southeast Asia and is now found in mixed infections and in recombinations with local strains in a geographically confined region.

SUBMITTER: Olinger CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2630741 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature