The association between hepatitis B virus longitudinal genetic variability and clinical outcome in circumpolar indigenous populations
The true prevalence of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infections in Northern Canada is underreported owing to the lack of occult-HBV studies. Clinical outcomes of HBV infections are variable; such that active disease is rare in Canadian and Greenlandic Inuit, yet hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is prevalent...
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2011
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1993/4524 |