Evolution of hepatitis B virus surface gene and protein among Iranian chronic carriers from different provinces

Background and Objectives:  Iranian chronic HBV carrier’s population has shown a unique pattern of genotype D distri- bution all around the country. The aim of this study was to explore more details of evolutionary history of carriers based on structural surface proteins from different provinces. M...

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Main Authors: Fatemeh Ramezani, Seyed Moayed Alavian, Ahmadreza Sadeghi, Abolfazl Khedive, Leila Ghalichi, Mehdi Norouzi, Hadi Karimzadeh, Reza Malekzadeh, Ghodrat Montazeri, Azim Nejatizadeh, Masood Ziaee, Farshid Abedi, Behrooz Ataei, Majid Yaran, Babak Sayad, Mohamad Hosein Somi, Gholamreza Sarizadeh, Ismail Sanei-Moghaddam, Fariborz Mansour-Ghanaei, Houshang Rafatpanah, Hossein Keyvani, Ebrahim Kalantari, Mehdi Saberfiroozi, Reza Rezaee, Maryam Daram, Mostafa Mahabadi, Zahra Goodarzi, Vahdat Poortahmasebi, Babak Geravand, Azam Khamseh, Masoud Mahmoodi, Seyed Mohammad Jazayeri
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2015-11-01
Series:Iranian Journal of Microbiology
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Online Access:https://ijm.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijm/article/view/785